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- verb Present participle of
poise .
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Examples
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He prodded Hannibal with the end of the broom-handle, after each prod poising it for a stroke.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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I can't handle undiagnosed "symptoms" that pop up for no good reason: the mystery bruises, the muscle spasms in my lower back, the twitch in my lower lip, the horrible tooth ache it's those silver fillings my dentist put in when I was a kid that is probably filled with mercury and now I have lead poising.
Pat Gallagher: Can I Borrow a Hug? Pat Gallagher 2012
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“May I?” he asked, poising his brush above the pot.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Fitzgerald took a notebook from his pocket and flipped it open, poising his pen.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Fitzgerald took a notebook from his pocket and flipped it open, poising his pen.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Hurley and his partners were building a company for the long run, while simultaneously poising themselves to accept the right offer from the right company.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Fitzgerald took a notebook from his pocket and flipped it open, poising his pen.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Hurley and his partners were building a company for the long run, while simultaneously poising themselves to accept the right offer from the right company.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Fitzgerald took a notebook from his pocket and flipped it open, poising his pen.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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“May I?” he asked, poising his brush above the pot.
Rogue Oracle 2011
yarb commented on the word poising
'His skin became alive again, and remembered the few responding kisses that he had wheedled from her, contacts so shy that they might have been the poisings of a moth.'
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 23, 2009
bilby commented on the word poising
Great use of wheedle here. Poising reminds too much of poisoning to appeal.
July 23, 2009
yarb commented on the word poising
Yes, you're right. I should have bracketed wheedle. Poising jumped out at me just because of that similarity to poisoning.
July 23, 2009