Sentence examples for prop from inspiring English sources

The word 'prop' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun or a verb. For example: The actor used a prop to complete the scene.

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prop

verb

To support or shore up something.

  • Try using a phone book to prop up the table where the foot is missing.

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Chris Huhne, a member of the secret team, wrote a dissenting report to Clegg saying the Lib Dems would have to form a full-blown coalition with the Tories, and not prop up a minority government.

"The French pack is really strong," the prop said.

A long-lost avant garde painting has returned to Hungary after nine decades thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian, who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little.

He also had a special Twitter mirror that looked suspiciously like an iPad wrapped up in a prop from Sleeping Beauty.

Was anyone else a little disturbed at the way in which the murder team played practical jokes on newbie Kima using a dead body as a prop?

But you're in first grade now, son, and up here front-rowers can run a speed man down, as Manly prop Josh Starling does.

The game did not lack passion and London Irish's Samoan flanker Ofisa Treviranus was lucky not to be shown a yellow card for his left jab into the head of another Australian, the tighthead prop Salesi Ma'afu, and O'Connor continued to look dangerous.

The unionist bloc at Westminster would be more likely to prop up a minority Tory administration.

Australia conceded seven penalties at the scrum on Saturday but the South Africa prop, Jannie du Plessis, also warned England not to expect to dominate Australia in the scrum.

"An opposition that promises more of the same is no opposition at all," said Leanne Wood, underlining her conviction that she will not prop up a Labour government "hell-bent on implementing Tory cuts".

There's little point in the GIB investing in green technologies if government continues to prop up the fossil fuel industry elsewhere.

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