Sentence examples for stopped upright from inspiring English sources

It concludes: I have to change the bed, But catch myself instead Stopped upright where I am Hugging my body to me As if to shield it from The pains that will go through me, As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

Scientists were holding their collective breath late Saturday when the Spirit turned its heat shield downward, deployed its parachute, jettisoned the shield, fired its retrorockets, inflated its air bags, bounced high off the surface and rolled to a stop, upright and in a seemingly perfect position to study what is described as a "scientific sweet spot".

Finally, one said, 'You can be like the reed that bends in the wind and then, when the wind stops, comes upright again.' That appealed to me so much I wrote a novel called The Reed That Bends".

Click here to watch video Hofmann and his partners Rus Yusupov, 28, and Colin Kroll, 29, came up with a simple display, touch the screen to start and stop, film upright in the square, that's it.

When this happens to us, we stop, stand upright, place hands in a neutral position folded in front and take a few breaths.

Kallum Higginbotham's curled shot tested Aberdeen keeper Jamie Langfield and the upright stopped Niall McGinn doubling the visitors' lead.

Effortlessly my body stopped rolling and became upright, and soft as a feather I landed on ground that was not two inches below my feet.

A top-heavy bike can require more effort to keep upright, when stopped in traffic for example, than a bike which is just as tall but with a lower center of mass.

In one of the more nauseating passages, Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face.

He took a few more steps, then staggered toward Crawford, who wrapped his arms around Davis to keep him upright as play stopped with 9.7 seconds left in the period.

The tongue-wagging Tennessee lineman stayed upright, but Oregon never stopped.