At the ready

"At the ready" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy.

The soldiers' rifles were at the ready.

Her apartment is filled with evidence of a furiously busy creative life: […] a laptop perched on a crate atop the dining table; lyric revisions in notebooks on a music stand by an ever-at-the-ready guitar.

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