Sentence examples for it was propped up from inspiring English sources

The portico was in such disrepair that it was propped up by a sailing mast.

It was propped up by a backlog of orders (from shipyards, for instance) plus some stock building.

It was propped up on my vanity table, and I could fill in every absent detail from memory.

A canvas by the Cuban Surrealist painter Wifredo Lam had arrived in the studio infested with hundreds of tobacco beetles; it was propped up against a wall, vacuum-sealed in a pouch filled with argon gas, which, it was hoped, was killing off the pests.

It was propped up with a biscuit tin, but tins were tins in those days and it did the job.

It was propped up through capital.

The left thought that it was propping up the status quo, and was probably a front for the C.I.A. to boot (and, in fact, the C.I.A. was using other foundations for covert funding).

It is propped up at the correct angle for the East Atlantic Inmarsat satellite.

"The laptop's at an angle or it's propped up almost on my nose".

It is propped up not by the strength of America's exports, but by vast imports of capital.

It is propped up or a disc that can be rotated from the outside by a crank.