Sentence examples for kept upright from inspiring English sources

It starts to seem like a city with a few familiar, well-kept buildings, surrounded by millions of hovels kept upright for no purpose other than the ads that are painted on their walls.

A support stand means it can be kept upright or hung, and it has a USB slot if winding isn't your thing.

Basically, she said, the chest should be kept upright and the muscles completely tensed "but without looking like you've been stabbed".

The standing-up dead man in the yellow suit – kept upright by some kind of rigor mortis or final act of will – is an invention of pure horror.

Most modern ships, particularly tankers, are of nearly square section over a large part of their middle length and can be kept upright in dry dock by the support of the bilge blocks under their bilge keels.

Its isosceles triangle of a sail, usually striped with rainbow colors, is kept upright not only by mast and a sideways boom but also with a diagonal pole that helps give the sail its shape.

It was hard to keep upright.

Easier to wash up - and keep upright - than wine glasses.

Theresa is 86, diminutive and half-blind, and keeps upright by grasping a tall staff.

I struggled somewhat to keep upright against the heavy downward drag.

These are usually the kids with violins or cellos who struggle to keep upright when the train is moving.