atop

Example Sentences

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Typically mounted on street poles or atop police cars, plate readers continuously monitor passing vehicles, recording their location at a specific date and time.

From Los Angeles Times

It has a small, tasteful display centered atop the handsomely upholstered dash console—honestly, the suture-like stitching in contrasting color?

From The Wall Street Journal

Without achieving genuine visibility into our existing systems, faster defense will be built atop fragile foundations.

From The Wall Street Journal

When they reunited atop the broken ship, Duane had thought up a question.

From Literature

SEOUL—It was a lateral move for Kim Jong Un, merely retaining his spot atop North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party.

From The Wall Street Journal