Sentence examples for rather upright from inspiring English sources

I believe that you need to be rather upright when you're eating.

Sweet cherry trees are large and rather upright, attaining heights up to 11 metres (36 feet).

The Brownish Elaenia is relatively large for its genus, perches rather upright, and its plumage is mainly dull brownish, with three brownish-white wingbars and whitish underparts.

The rather upright stance of the car, which is no great looker, may be partly a concession to Mr Tata's stature.

Colonel Gadd is forever "striking out," in his rather upright way, but there's a likable modesty to his guidance ("I make no claim to infallibility") as we follow him from the Hoo Peninsula, via Rochester, to London, where the adult Pip is sent when he receives a fortune from an anonymous benefactor.

WHO SLEEPS WITH KATZ By Todd McEwen Granta ($18.95, hardcover) Isidor headed in his natural direction, down Fifth, moving southward -- pausing at the corners only as sensibly as anyone else -- diminishing rapidly and becoming an ant along with the rest of them by the time he shouldered by Empire -- which looked rather upright, stiff and presentable today, not drooping like it sometimes does.

Austin was a respectable, rather severely upright, formal and straitlaced, dedicatedly domesticated husband and père de famille.

Plain red initials, some of which are drawn vertically rather than upright, and often with small red pearl designs, appear to be executed by many different hands.

He threw it up, it landed awkwardly, on its side rather than upright, he belted it with his right leg, and the ball sailed, wobbling slightly, into history.

Lifts are more often horizontal or upside down rather than upright, while various phrases stretch the dancers as though their limbs were being pulled in different directions.

Zhu's design, in stark contrast to the stadium, is a sequence of tall buildings that look, on first encounter, rather like upright 1960s IBM computers.