Sentence examples for nearly upright from inspiring English sources

It was sitting nearly upright on the ocean floor 2,003 feet beneath the surface.

A unique feature of the game is "cradling," in which the player rapidly rotates the stick in half-turns while holding it nearly upright as he runs.

The NC700X is powered by a fuel-injected parallel twin that lays its cylinders forward at a 62-degree angle rather than placing them nearly upright.

Pointing to one of the twisted, looming pieces of steel, held nearly upright by chains and a steel pedestal, Dr. Sunder said it had come from just under the gash in the north tower produced by one of the hijacked Boeing 767's, American Airlines Flight 11.

However, lift assessment tools have focused on materials handling performed in an upright, or nearly upright standing posture.

However, the major drawback of this crystalline growth mode is the nearly upright standing orientation of the DIP molecules in both pristine and blend films.

If the growth is upright, nearly head height, and with long, branchless stems and bears flowers through the season it is most likely a hybrid tea rose.

An upright was nearly called on to save the visitors again moments later when Kingsley Coman fired a long-range shot that had Wales sweating.

The train remained upright for nearly half a mile, but several of its cars derailed and jackknifed into the path of the onrushing freight train, which was carrying 1,000 tons of coal and moving at 60 miles an hour on the adjacent northbound track.

From the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., comes its famous Mother of Karaikkal, an ancient ascetic whose upright skeletal form nearly vibrates with religious fervor.

It is like painting a picture with an immensely long-handled brush, for with a 14ft pole with a forked end one can guide the branches into yew or holly or tall thorn very nearly into such forms of upright spring or downward swag as one pleases.