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• Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN. From the entry nomad
• Obama, on the other hand, stickhandled his preacher problem and retained his poise and dignity.2008 May 8, Diane Francis, “Obama vs McCain. Finally”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 13 May 2008. From the entry stickhandle
• Between these two rode a raven-haired elven lady, who surveyed her surroundings with poise.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Prologue: Shade of Fear”, in Eragon, page 2. From the entry raven-haired
• Fields’ cookie store on Pine, sinking his fangs into a chocolate chippie with pride and poise.”1985 January 24, “Voice Box”, in Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 69. From the entry chocolate chippie
• The best advice you can receive regarding balking is to always maintain poise and composure on the mound.2013, Aaron Wisewell, The Baseball Coach. From the entry balk
• An ageable wine with great character and poise.2009, Wine Enthusiast, volume 23, numbers 1-7, page 91. From the entry ageable
• The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.2002, Margery Sabin, Dissenters and Mavericks, page 86. From the entry nonadept
• A person may express a sense of poise and composure in the presence of another or may appear nervous, anxious and uncomposed.2023, Martha Peaslee Levine, The Psychology of Trust, page 59. From the entry uncomposed
• Such sober poise and unpompous stances!2007 May 15, Natalie Angier, “In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power”, in New York Times. From the entry unpompous
• September — the Balance poises the equinox; Scorpion gives an Octoberly nip; November's centaur Archer bends His bow, and lets an arrow slip.1985, John Heath-Stubbs, The Immolation of Aleph, page 87. From the entry Octoberly
• Is it not worth while to try and approximate, if we cannot hope to attain, the ideal of fretless, fussless, and unworrying poise?1913, George Lincoln Walton, Calm Yourself, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 7. From the entry fretless
• Skill, endurance, and perseverance may almost be called muscular virtues; and fatigue, velleity, caprice, ennui, restlessness, lack of control and poise, muscular faults.1906, G. Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene, page 9. From the entry caprice
• They are a calm, flaccid, flabile, placid lot who pat themselves on the back on account of their marvelous poise of character, fat bank account and U.S. bonds.1910, Albert G. Detch, “Much Hysteria Abroad in the Land”, in The Bridgemen's Magazine, volume 10, page 835. From the entry flabile

Meaning of poise

1. noun A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
2. noun Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
3. noun Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

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How do you use poise in a sentence?

Poise is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.”

What is a short sentence with poise?

“Such sober poise and unpompous stances!”

What does poise mean?

Poise means a state of balance, equilibrium or stability.