Sentence examples for hold upright from inspiring English sources

It's the same size as the iPad, but it's 40 percent thicker (.75 inches thick) and 20 percent heavier (1.6 pounds) — a bitter spec to swallow in a gadget you hold upright all day long.

An experienced operator would be content to note on the man carrying the staff the point of his hat or of his face which corresponds to the same height of the clinometer (Figure 18); this avoids using a staff which it is not always easy to hold upright.

Then hold upright and tap the pen so the air bubbles rise then press the injection button in and count to five and when the medication forms a small droplet at the tip of the needle then you are ready to for the next step.

A million people turned out; the ones who fainted were held upright by the crush.

This twining tendril becomes transformed at its tip into a pitcher that is held upright.

When the loop is held upright, in-plane buckling occurs at a critical length, and subsequent postbuckling deflections can be large.

Its appeal comes in spring, when the leaves are held upright and show off fuzzy, soft tan undersides.

The yellow pitcher plant (S. flava) has bright yellow flowers and a long, green, trumpet-shaped leaf the lid of which is held upright.

The chef's breakfast trunk is genuinely designed to travel, its porcelain plates held upright with leather straps and its cutlery in drawers.

I and a few "riggers" were holding upright one of the four slabs of One Ton Prop (House of Cards) which leant against each other.

Few could forget what the museum calls his "one of a kind" porcelain and cloth doll depicting, when held upright, President William McKinley.