Sentence examples for lifted upright from inspiring English sources

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The baby was lifted upright and patted at the back; she dipped her hand in water and patted it on the back (Mother, IDI).

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But, as Frost lifted Jamadi upright by his jumpsuit, noticing that it was digging into his crotch, he thought, This prisoner is pretty good at playing possum.

The central movement has the hideous image of two women lifted, each upright, but with legs straddling the shoulders of two men apiece.

So he hired a piano mover to lift the upright up and out while the carpet went down.

A crane had lifted the pencil upright like a missile so that onlookers could behold its 76-foot length.

We lifted our bodies upright and we moved into tree pose, which someone in the class remarked was "so totally 420".

The boy lifted the bicycle upright, climbed onto the seat and pedalled it in circles, watched by his stepsister and two stepbrothers.

Someone grasped my hand and tried to lift me back upright, but ended up dragging the chair across the floor with me in it.

Mr. Sloane, an engineer with Titan Salvage of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and his team are preparing for the so-called parbuckling operation, an 8- to 10-hour process that will try to lift the vessel upright in one day and then float it away.

In "Harmonic Motion," Streb worked in the same vein, but tweaked it: five dancers in red hooded sweatsuits lay on the floor and behaved as though they were upright, "lifting" one another, treading along, turning somersaults; filmed from above, their images were then projected onto the back wall, so that the dancers appeared to be frolicking in a lunar landscape.

Inhale, use the hand to lift your head upright to center.

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