Sentence examples for upright across from inspiring English sources

It is known that primitive hominids — human ancestors and their close kin — walked upright across the plains of Africa at this time.

We humans may have come down from the trees to walk upright across the savannah, but we've been aching to get back up into them ever since.

I was experiencing my first successful attempt at standup paddling on a surfboard, and the sensation of rowing upright across the glassy ocean without the energy of a swell made me feel like an astronaut on a spacewalk.

No one cheers louder than Walter, in this engaging account of some two dozen human species that wandered upright across the globe, stoking fires, interbreeding, painting on cave walls, and occasionally eating one another, before ultimately vanishing from the earth.

He said he had chosen the single-story Manor House Motel as the site of his laboratory years earlier because it had a pitched roof high enough for him to walk upright across the attic floor which would make it possible for him to realize his dream of creating a viewing platform to peer into the guest rooms below.

Television news footage showed a white charter bus marked "Transit Systems" splayed sideways but upright across southbound lanes in the North Hills neighborhood.

I no longer slump over the step but stand upright, bounding across the top of it.

At one point, a thunderstorm made him bolt upright and run across the room in a crouch.

At the start of extra-time, Djordjevic let fly from outside the box with a shot that crashed into the right-hand upright before rebounding across the goal and striking the left post as well.

Two pairs of upright stones stand directly across the circle from each other, defining a view that would have displayed sunrise at the summer solstice, the researchers said.

I ate my breakfast without the protection of a newspaper, staring meekly at the back sports page which stood upright between the face across the table and myself.