How to use "position" in a sentence

If I can throw the rope around this, it might hold everything in the right position.

When I look at my arm, I see that it's in a strange position.

He would feel the same way if he were in Ned Land's position.

I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government

Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing

The beggar was still there, in the same position, wearing the same clothes

'Then I'll be in a better position to help them.'

He stayed in that position for some time

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

When a second cannon was moved into position next to the first, they knew that the end was near.

"The camera is still in position

You know that Sophie is sleeping in her usual position at the top of the stairs and that she never makes a noise in the night, and you wish, for the first time, that you also had a dog

Your mother is in a very unusual position, you know - Cham's dad only gets bits and pieces of work now and then

"And then, when everything is attached, the pod moves into a horizontal position, so you're lying down."

Your pod is about to move back into a vertical position."

She landed a position as choreographer for a two-bit lounge revue, a dismally cheap imitation of the multimillion-dollar Lido, and eventually she took over the costumer's job as well

So he ran for an elective position on the court, and he won

Many of them had been Presidential appointees, occupying high-level posts in the federal government; a few had served on the President's cabinet, in half a dozen administrations, though none had ever deigned to run for an elective position

Zachariah would report their conversation in detail, and Dombey needed to assume a more balanced position for the record

But it had seemed absurd and shortsighted of the director to force a man of Alexander's position to travel by such relatively primitive means

Alexander was proud of the importance of his position

More shocking still to the sensibilities of patrician Easterners like them: on three occasions, in South America, Alexander had been in a position where it had been necessary for him to pull the assassin's trigger himself

The guard swung the submachine gun into firing position as they swept past him.

She spun the wheel and located a pin that, when pushed, prevented anyone from turning the handle back to the unlocked position.

Danny became excited when he saw her drawing near, and in spite of his terrible condition, he shakily thrust himself into a sitting position, clutching at the bed rails with one frail, trembling hand, eagerly extending his other hand toward her.

If I can make them think that Zachariah was the one who spilled the secrets to you, if I can protect my position here, maybe I'll be promoted and have more influence." He smiled

The hammer was in its fully lowered position, and I saw that Andre's head and arm could only be a flattened mess.

Look at the position of the wound

It is difficult to imagine being in such a position, but I cannot believe I would be upset myself.'

I am in a very strange position, Mr Clement, and I want to ask your advice about what I should do next

The two men hurried back at once to the common, and found the cylinder still lying in the same position

It was some time before my shock would let me struggle up into a drier position, or think of the great danger I was in.

One hundred and sixteen were now in position, mainly covering London

From there we could see the searchlights on Richmond Hill and Kingston Hill moving in the sky, and at about eleven the windows shook, and we heard the sound of the large guns that had been put in position there

This was the Thunder Child, the only one in sight, but far away to the right a column of smoke marked the position of other warships

Now I was more used to them, and was in a good position with a lot of time to study them properly

But afterwards, during the second day, I was able to consider our position clearly

I began to think that, although our position was terrible, there was no reason yet to give up hope

It should be possible to find the position of the gun from which the shots came, to watch this part of the planet carefully and be ready.