Sentence examples for upright by from inspiring English sources

Spears is still decidedly upright by such standards.

The ship is due to be upright by this evening.

Both teams, I was pleased to note, were set upright by their coaches.

Theresa is 86, diminutive and half-blind, and keeps upright by grasping a tall staff.

Its barrel was about twelve feet tall, held upright by metal supports.

A million people turned out; the ones who fainted were held upright by the crush.

Irish yews are upright by nature, but I wanted to be sure they stayed slim.

He stayed upright by a miracle but his chances of future fatherhood will not have been enhanced.

Using a dry-fresco technique, he paints sepia-toned scenes of Albanian weddings (taken from videos) on large, rough plaster walls held upright by thick wood beams.

HELD upright by straps in his wheelchair, clad in a dark suit, Lee Sang-mook was delivering a lecture on marine geophysics.

Did humans begin to stand upright by taking to the water – and to nourish bigger brains with high-protein deliveries of fish and shellfish?