Sentence examples for our upright from inspiring English sources

Our upright (or grand) piano.

When he came to visit, I sat in awe as he played our upright.

He planned to tell the class how our upright gait, built on a body plan inherited from tree-dwelling primates, made us prone to lower back pain.

While I was being teased by the production team one of them informed me that it was a more important find than Lucy, our upright direct ancestor from 3 million years ago.

"I think that wading in a watery environment is as good an explanation, at the moment, for our upright gait as any other theory for human bipedalism," said Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, London.

For years, technology has conspired to transform our upright bodies into hunched-back zombies.

In such white robes, heaven's Angels used to be Received by men; Thou Angel bringst with thee A heaven like Mahomet's Paradise; and though Ill spirits walk in white, we easily know, By this these Angels from an evil sprite, Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.

According to the hypothesis, many human adaptations, such as our ability to walk upright, our ability to control our breathing and even the presence of fat layers under our skin, arose from selection pressures of a time in which our ancestors lived in watery habitats.

Or, is this just a new fact of life until Google Glasses can crane our necks upright again?

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

In our study upright body positioning at 45° was associated with sustained drop of MAP <65 mmHg in 72 (36%) patients.