Sentence examples for almost upright from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sher puts the three singers in a big bed (cranked almost upright by the Prompter), and the seduction becomes a confused tangle of limbs amid dim light.

Flaherty tries to imitate Wakefield, and he resembles a mini-Wakefield because he stays almost upright in his motion and lands in a solid fielding position.

My bike has a wide, padded seat that is tilted forward and a high handlebar that allows me to sit almost upright.

In actuality, I have not seen it all but this is the kind of innovation that makes a jaded old gadgeteur like me go from slouching to sitting almost upright in my chair.

Initially the coin rolls on its side – almost upright, as if along a flat plain stretching out in front of it – in a large graceful circle.

On their second attempt, the team ranked second to last, due in part to White struggling to crouch down properly in his seat, remaining almost upright through the first corner.

This one walked almost entirely upright.

He stands almost perfectly upright, and raises his head for a good look at the goal.

Because the car's windows are vertical — almost perfectly upright — snow does not usually stick to the glass, he discovered.

The Lucy species had long before evolved almost humanlike upright walking, bipedality, as attested by the Laetoli footprints in Tanzania from as early as 3.7 million years ago.

He has been disingenuous in explaining his fund-raising for the party, a surprising stain on an almost unbearably upright character.