Sentence examples for i was upright from inspiring English sources

I bent to pick it up but I'm a slow bender and by the time I was upright she was halfway across the square.

The next ball thumped into Junior Murray's pads, and now I was upright, my fists clenching the air in an unconscious parody of Cork's own.

One issue was that its weight, being mostly at the back, caused some pull on the front of my neck when I was upright; this is to keep the Hövding resting on the wearer's back while cycling, in case of a crash.

"He thinks I'm upright a little too much," Anthony said.

I am upright in the middle of the room, shifting from foot to foot like I have to pee.

Then I take the train home and, no matter how many seats are vacant, I'm upright in the middle of the carriage.

The person with the head in the cabinet is shouting, "If I were upright looking at the back of this thing, how many connectors from the left do I insert the (expletive deleted) yellow plug and what does the (expletive deleted) icon look like?" The person with the manuals says, "Dear, are you looking at the top row of thingies or the bottom row?" DANIEL SACK Buffalo.

"You should be thankful I'm upright!" He said.

I was sitting upright and I fell over on my side and then he and two others kicked me.

But though I willed myself to stand I remained where I was, barely upright, my hands buttressed at my side and my torso bent forward, swaying a little.

Earlier, when I was still upright and thundering behind my dogs over the Finnmark plateau, far north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, the moon had appeared in the east, a rose-gold flattened flower head above the pink snow.