Sentence examples for erect in a from inspiring English sources

Adam McKay sat erect in a swivel chair, puffing on a Marlboro Ultra Light — big, bookish and bearlike.

What still stands appears like some prehistoric worshiping place, a few clay pillars erect in a square.

The same is true for a man in another photo, who sits erect in a lawn chair with a shotgun on his lap, like a sentry keeping watch.

So the telltale sign of superiority became a pen -- a government-issue tapered pen that stood erect in a holder originally designed for quills.

Mr. Reed, an accountant, has been using a wheelchair for about six years, but he still has some use of his hands and arms, and can hold his head up and sit erect in a chair.

Irrespective of thermometer, you will find your banker rigidly erect in a starched collar and even wearing a waistcoat, unless he conceals the lack thereof under a carefully buttoned double-breasted coat.

Sitting erect in an armchair, Nate Ramis said, "I like to tell jokes, to balance my insecurity".

The subjects were required to stand erect in an anatomical position (Saladin 2007).

There a former colleague unfolds his plan to erect in Moscow a pantheon to the brain.

Even a treatment tent erected in a hospital car park.

A mobile-phone mast is erected in a village.