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Example sentences for "perched upon"

  • Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

  • Perched upon a twig before the opening of the nest, he sings her his best song, and while she is sitting feeds her with as much zeal as pleasure.

  • When a party of these birds is perched upon a tree, they utter soft, strange notes, as though talking together, the sound resembling the murmur of conversation.

  • Perched upon a small tree, or screened from observation by dense clumps of bushes, with heads bent skyward, they startle the echoes of woodland and valley with their strange, ecstatic music.

  • A welcome sight was the snug rest-house, perched upon a hillock above a fussy little stream and surrounded by a fine clump of deodars.

  • The little village of Wangat, perched upon a steep spur above the river, was woefully deficient of anything like a good camping-ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perched upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    board ship; broadcast stations; coniferous trees; distant land; exhibit number; few moments; fossil plants; great desire; historical value; inch board; leaned over; magnificent palace; one great; perched upon; prize fight; public auction; public nature; she answered; somewhat resembling; that can; will restore; wood pulp