: on top of
Examples of atop in a Sentence
Preposition
The house sits atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.
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Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
The song was a massive hit, climbing atop to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024
Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 12 Nov. 2024
After spending the rest of 2017 touring the world behind Joanne (including a headlining slot at Coachella, swooping in to replace a pregnant Beyoncé atop the bill), Gaga devoted 2018 to her first Hollywood starring role, in Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star is Born.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Adverb or adjective
Nearby, a group of seven workers at a plastics plant in Erwin, Tennessee, scrambled atop of a semi-truck to escape the floods and were swept away by the current.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
The song was a massive hit, climbing atop to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 22 July 2024
Preposition
The Marvel shop will feature a 9-foot-tall Incredible Hulk sculpture smashing through a wall, a Spider-Man figure atop the building and movie props inside the store.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 12 Nov. 2024
After spending the rest of 2017 touring the world behind Joanne (including a headlining slot at Coachella, swooping in to replace a pregnant Beyoncé atop the bill), Gaga devoted 2018 to her first Hollywood starring role, in Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star is Born.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Atop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atop. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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