Sentence examples for it is erect from inspiring English sources

Her hand appears, tweaks the nipple in a businesslike way till it is erect, and we spend the next few minutes watching as the taut areola surrounding the nipple subsides into wrinkled folds and whorls.

The gynostemium is somewhat similar to that one of Dasyglossum, i.e. it is erect, narrowly winged, apically upcurved.

Growing to 2 m high and wide, it is erect to prostrate in habit, with wedge-shaped lobed leaves covered in fine silvery hair.

It is erect and cylindrical, bright green, and smooth as to seem polished, with multiple branched leaves) cut into the finest of segments.

Pull on the nipple gently when it is erect to encourage it to stay so.

The Boston Globe has explained how its paywall will operate once it is erected from the beginning of next month.

You can get an idea of where Enron is going from the new building it is erecting across the street from its headquarters in Houston, Texas.

You can get an idea of where Enron is going from the new building it is erecting across the street from its Houston headquarters.

Instead, it is erecting a skyscraper at 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas.

Often it is erected against a pillar and sometimes upon a short, free-standing base or slender column.

It is erecting a container medical centre, several mixed-use developments in the Thames Gateway, and a complex for 150 students in London.