perched

A bicyclist is a bag of calcium and water perched on some welded aluminum pipes swimming in a sea of tanks.

Compare that to police in full armor, with tactical weapons trained at the crowd, perched atop armored vehicles...

With practice, you can remain perched on the crest of this wave and be the happy drunk all night.

The geostationary satellites are perched very high above the earth, and take frequent pictures of the 'full disk' of earth.

They sound like you're perched on Johnny Cash's lap with one ear in his mouth and a stethoscope on his guitar.

I also tend to daydream while I'm perched on the porcelain throne, often about data structures.

Both playing WoW and programming I sit perched in front of a computer, nearly motionless.

Many of your behaviors are effectively semi-autonomous reactions perched inside you.

Does anyone know more about how the institutions which these men and women are perched at the top of, affect there attitudes about workers and their labor?

But surely, comfort pales Perched on padded Chippendales?

She wore a red scarf, jangly jewelry, and a pair of lime-green sunglasses perched atop her curly hair, and she told me she would prefer to remain anonymous.

In Britain, come summertime, most people would prefer to be sat at a trestle table in the beer garden of a pub rather than being awkwardly perched on some pavement outside some cafe.

Perched on four slim legs borrowed from the truth, she pricks up her ears beneath my fingertips.