Sentence examples for erect above from inspiring English sources

In the pool below, a senatorial gentleman does the slowest breaststroke lengths, his ancient head erect above the water.

He was allowed to pose standing erect, above Freud's eyeline, with his eyes open and focused, as no woman ever was.

In a brief passage, Koma's body demonstrates a series of minor spasms that coincide with drumbeats, while Eiko rises until her whole torso is erect above the water.

The wings at rest may be extended permanently on each side, as in some dragonflies (Odonata), or held erect above the body, as in mayflies (Ephemeroptera); in most insects, however, they are folded against the abdomen.

So pervasive was baseball in a single metropolis that Frank's, a white-linen steakhouse at the Lower Manhattan end of 10th Avenue, bought a $400 television set to erect above the small bar -- thus ending 88 years of insistence that nothing distract customers from the cuts of beef laid before them.

Ancestral Pueblo in the Grand Canyon area started to use stone in addition to mud and poles to erect above-ground houses sometime around 800 CE.

It reached its maximum growth in Late Classic times, following the collapse of Teotihuacán, when the largest structure ever built by Meso-Americans was erected (see above Cholula).

Non-profit organization Planting Peace just erected the above billboard in Davis' hometown of Morehead, Kentucky.

Seven minutes after that, there were three tents erected above long tables, a cocktail bar and coolers full of cold drinks.

The temporary stadium erected above the coastline of the Peninsula de Magdelana was jammed with an estimated crowd of 13,000, but one not excessively raucous.

In the wings of the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square and on a stage erected above the space where in the past an organist pumped out gaudy versions of Colonel Bogey, a mass of awards aficionados were marshalled by Stephen Fry.