Sentence examples for prop somebody from inspiring English sources

"A prop," somebody called them.

'A prop,' somebody called them.

Ms. Kase, who helped write an earlier version of Mr. Ellis's bill, said this was one of many cases that led her to conclude that the police should be recorded so they do not "prop somebody up and record the 'Yes, I did it' statement after hours of interrogation".

With the electoral maths this fucked, it's pretty clear somebody's going to have to prop somebody up.

(M HV1) " You cannot emotionally and mentally prop somebody up for years and years...sounds awful, doesn't it?" (B HV4) Some women suggested that neither their GP nor their health visitor could do very much, which resonates with health visitors' views on the GP role: " There is nothing else available.

That's another joke, O.K., because you're propping up somebody else's economy and ours is going into the toilet," Mr. Johnson said between bouts of clarifying track information for rail travelers.

Somebody propped open the door to the club, and pedestrians outside slowed their pace to listen.

Pearce was claimed by the Astros before the Yankees, in need of somebody to prop up their struggling offense, traded for him and promptly put him in the cleanup spot in his first game on Tuesday.

Every time Galloway cut someone off for offending him, somebody else would prop up, ready to dine in hell.

So I can understand why there's such a slew of books seeking to reconstruct the innermost emotions, hopes and aspirations of outwardly unremarkable characters whose function just seems to be to act as props in the story of somebody else.

"It's like somebody's looking down on us," said the Hull prop Liam Watts.