How to use "top" in a sentence

I lay everything inside it on top of the boulder

I put the bottle between my legs and turn the top

It's lying open on top of the boulder.

Already that morning, his men had searched the top and centre of the area and found nothing.

It was very cold and I tried hard to get to the top and breathe

Ned sat on a platform which was on top of the ship

A short man in strange black clothes opened a secret door on the top of the ship

The top of the Nautilus was just above the surface of the water

As we got closer to Egypt, I went upstairs to the glass room at the top of the ship

Outside, six or seven small squid moved along the top of the Nautilus, throwing all their tentacles at the ship and its men

She felt the top of her head with her hand

'Oh!' Her head hit the top of the house and she put the bottle down quickly.

She stood up tall and looked over the top

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large green caterpillar.

The cards - all fifty-two of them - came down on top of Alice

We began to move back to the hill, but Doyle suddenly saw more enemy soldiers who were going towards our men! We waited until they got to the top, then Bones began shooting with the machine gun

There were two doors at the top of the stairs

From the top of the steps he saw a horrible sight

Two front teeth were missing at the top

Valjean was so tired that he fell asleep, fully-dressed, on top of the sheets, but he didn't sleep for long

Then, in the top corner near the ceiling, Marius saw that there was a triangular hole.

On top of the cupboard, by his feet, he noticed the piece of paper that the elder daughter had written on: Be careful! The police are coming!

Soldiers now occupied the top of the barricade, but were unable to advance any further because the defenders fought so fiercely

'Put down your weapons and surrender!' a soldier called from the top of the barricade.

'They're coming!' cried Marius from the top of the barricade.

I am scared now because I know that I am near, and in the dark I begin to see large, grey stones standing like giants on the top of the hill

Above the crowd he can see the NYPD camera on top of a tall post, and he pushes past the tourists to reach it

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

Then you see Sophie, in her normal place at the top of the stairs, and you see how near the burglar is

"Sir, look!" West says and points to the top of a tower.

And then they were all on top of him

She was on the top of a cliff looking down at a valley, with fields and forests that went on and on

With a loud beep, the doors opened at floor sixty-three: the top

It was a delicious dinner - Mom had brought home some top-quality meat from the laboratory, and Gran had added some vegetables from her garden

Cham kissed the top of her head

At the top of the steps, a big door stood wide open

Mrs Danvers was standing at the top of the wide flight of stairs

Mrs Danvers was still watching me from the top of the stairs.

We had reached the top of a small hill

I got to the top of the largest rock and looked beyond it

At last we came to the top of the path and out on to the lawn

I stood them in a row on top of the desk and looked at them

I stood at the top of the stairs, smiling

We reached the top of the hill

The nearby windows and the thick glass top of the coffee table were vibrating

Tina shouted at the man in black, but he ignored her and kept shoveling dirt on top of Danny

Bill Jaborski was supposed to be one of the ten top winter-survival experts in the country

All of them were top-notch scouts - and all of them died along with Jaborski and Tom Lincoln.

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

In the carton were two stacks of comic books, and the two issues on top sported gruesome, full-color covers

Gas might be leaking under the concrete slab and building up down there, in which case it's possible you wouldn't detect it right away, but you'd still be sitting on top of a bomb."

In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard

"I like it better when you're on top," he said, and he winked at her.

If the body were exhumed and reexamined by a top-notch pathologist, we'd almost certainly find proof that the cause of death wasn't what the authorities originally said it was."

Alexander knew nothing of hard work; he had ascended to the top of his field as if he were a prince with a divine right to rule.

The windshield wipers started thumping back and forth at top speed, adding their metronomical beat to the chaos inside the Chevy.

It was an immense, pseudo-Colonial house, perched prominently on top of a hill, on a three- or four-acre property, and conveniently next door to a large, nondenominational cemetery

George was encouraged by the President to believe that eventually he would be promoted to the bureau chief of the entire western half of the country - and then all the way to the top, if only he could get the floundering western division functioning as smoothly as the South American and Nevada offices

On each side of the gate, a nine-foot-high fence, angled outward at the top and strung with wickedly sharp coils of razor wire, stretched out of sight into the forest

The top of the gate was also wrapped with razor wire.

She began to wonder exactly what sort of little boy they were going to find at the top of the mountain.

Maybe a few of the top people come and go regularly by helicopter

He crashed into a desk, sending a pile of white and pink papers onto the floor, and then he fell on top of the mess that he had made.

The hallways were deserted on the top floor.

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

But there was one small room at the top of the house which was always locked

At the top was written 6.20

Then he saw the note and the clock and he wrote 6.20 at the top of the letter and altered the clock to 6.22

Across the top were the words:

Across the top was written: By hand - Urgent.

It was written at six thirty- five and another person - the murderer - put the incorrect time 6.20 at the top.'

He realized that, very slowly, the round top of the cylinder was turning.

The cylinder was artificial - hollow - with an end that screwed out! Something inside the cylinder was unscrewing the top!

But now the sounds inside had stopped, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between its top and body.

The top had certainly stopped turning.

Someone pushed against me, and I almost fell down on top of the screw

Then I realized that the Martians could hit the top of Maybury Hill with their Heat-Ray because they had cleared the college out of the way.

Near the top I stood on something soft and, by a flash of lightning, saw the body of a man

The captain swore at the top of his voice at his own delay, and the ship increased speed.

The top of a Martian fighting-machine came into sight over the house tops, less than a hundred metres away from us

Through the hole I could see the top of a tree, turned to gold by the evening sun

The fifth cylinder had not fallen on our house, but on top of the house next door

Down on the left a busy little digging-machine could be seen, sending out small clouds of green smoke and working its way round the pit, making it bigger and piling the earth up over the top

'No!' he shouted, at the top of his voice

I hesitated, then with a rush of desperate courage, and with my heart beating violently, I climbed to the top of the pile of earth in which I had been buried.

Near the top of Putney Hill I came across more human bones, eaten clean and left lying around

I spent that night in the pub that stands on the top of Putney Hill, sleeping in a made bed for the first time since I had run away to Leatherhead

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

I think it's time we looked around from the top of the house.'

And as I came out of the top of Baker Street, I saw far away over the trees, in the clearness of the sunset, the top of the Martian fighting-machine from winch this howling came

There, on the top, high against the early morning stars, was a third Martian, standing still like the others.

I marched on without fear towards this great machine, and then, as I came nearer and the light grew, I saw that a number of black birds were circling and gathering around the top of it

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

Out of the top of it hung long, brown pieces of flesh, which the birds were tearing away.

In another moment I had climbed a pile of earth and stood on its top, and the pit was below me

At the sound of birds overhead I looked up at the enormous fighting-machine that would never fight again, at the pieces of red flesh that dropped down onto the overturned seats on the top of Primrose Hill.

I remember, clearly and in great detail, all that I did that day until the time when I stood crying on the top of Primrose Hill

Harris put a big jar of jam on top of a tomato and crushed I it

Then they put heavy things on top of them

On top of everything, I have dependable information that James is running after a new girl.'

Fanny was the top female athlete at the London Olympic Games because she got the most medals.

When she won the US Open tournament in 1972, she received 15,000 dollars less than the men's top player, Ilie Nastase

The US Open became the first big tournament to give equal money to its men and women top players

Bobby Riggs was a top men's tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s