Sentence examples for dragged upright from inspiring English sources

It's like being mugged by a professional whose skills in mixed martial arts you can't help but notice and appreciate, even as you are savagely beaten, then dragged upright, bruised and bleeding, and forced to watch as your assailant gives fully 45% of your money to charity.

It's like being mugged by a professional whose skills in mixed martial arts you can't help but notice and appreciate, even as you are savagely beaten, then dragged upright, bruised and bleeding, and forced to watch as your assailant gives fully 45% of your money to charity.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a negative review, likening it to "being mugged by a professional whose skills in mixed martial arts you can't help but notice and appreciate, even as you are savagely beaten, then dragged upright, bruised and bleeding, and forced to watch as your assailant gives fully 45% of your money to charity".

It's only by manually dragging it upright that he can lift the great head with its wild sprays of sparse white hair.

I won't budge; Hill drags me upright and on to the stage, conga-dancing faster and faster so that before long I'm chasing him in circles, looking hopeless, while the audience whoops and claps.

Instead of having to drag your upright or canister vacuum out of the closet every day (or more often), imagine just grabbing your little lightweight handheld vac for quick pickups of litter, cat hair, or bits of food on the floor.

Mr. Fuller, who did not grow up in a culture-rich environment, may never have discovered his talent if his older brother, Richard, had not dragged home a battered upright piano from a yard sale.

She placed the snail upright and slowly dragged it a few meters.

Substitute Robert Winters dragged an effort wide of left-hand upright with 20 minutes remaining as Rovers pressed for an equaliser.

He was rarely given a sight on goal though, and when he did on one occasion, the former Marseille player dragged his low shot wide of Petr Cech's left-hand upright.

Usually, the condemned man, after being whipped, or "scourged," dragged the crossbeam of his cross to the place of punishment, where the upright shaft was already fixed in the ground.