Sentence examples for prop it up with from inspiring English sources

Either place the desk in a level place, or prop it up with something to make it level again.

If you have a shredder that is supported by the receptacle, you'll need to prop it up with something else (e.g. thick books, soup cans, etc).. Turn the machine on.

First, if a bank is deeply insolvent, the government should not waste taxpayer resources trying to prop it up with capital injections or enhanced insurance of its toxic assets.

We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.

(We found it best to put the TV on a saucer atop a coffee cup, then prop it up with a fork and a napkin).

The best solution is to adopt a self-consciously casual crossed-legged sitting position, and prop it up with your thigh.

Mr. Doyle's suggestion that they "just prop it up in the corner with a bowl of water" came dangerously close to being fulfilled.

There were some drawbacks to the place on Graham Avenue, including a bedroom floor so sloped that the bed required four books to prop it up, and occasional winter days with no heat or hot water.

There's a stand so you can prop it up and use wireless controllers with it (not included; they're trying to keep the price low), and you can also plug it straight into your TV via HDMI, which basically makes this thing a spare NES home console.

While firefighters waited for cranes big enough to right the car to arrive, they snaked hoses through the yard, checked the 70-foot-long tanker to make sure that none of its potentially explosive gas was leaking, and propped it up with an air bag so it would not fall into the support columns for the IRT No. 7 line viaduct that crossed the yard.

But to have Afghan officials do the same is the more frustrating for the fact that the Afghan government is largely financed by the United States and its Western allies, who helped create it and have propped it up with regular cash infusions.