Sentence examples for prop to a from inspiring English sources

He is all over the Internet and news sites as the background prop to a thousand stock market stories.

His innovative use of three fingers in an up-picking style, rather than the mostly two-fingered claw-hammer down-picking technique, elevated the five-string banjo from a part of the rhythm section — or a comedian's prop — to a lead or solo instrument.

It's a significant prop to a story that has moments of poignancy and a few good characters, but ultimately falls flat.

Paul Charfauros, who makes replica journals, sold the prop to a collector on Ebay, and while in transit the outer envelope was separated from the package addressed to Indy.

One of the great pleasures of watching Game of Thrones for the past 6.5 million years has been watching Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen rise from her brother's meek prop to a queen worthy of the Iron Throne.

Such changes were routinely described as a change from a 'clean' (prop) to a 'dirty' (sal) environment because there were no longer people living there and looking after the land (Jeffery 2013: 307–308).

The rate on the turbo-prop to a retail customer would have been about $5,200.

4. Keep props to a minimum.

But I pause here to give props to a legitimate sports "thanks to God" moment.

Why is he lending props to a service that throws songwriters and recording artists under the bus?

"It got a little exhausting dragging a bunch of props to a theatre all the time," Newell recalls.