Sentence examples for upright opposite from inspiring English sources

Supine pressures were often lower than when patients were sitting upright, opposite to the usual situation in both shunted and physiologic conditions.

A young woman, seated on an upright chair opposite me, is reading a book.

Agonistic or threat displays include lunging forward with the bill in a horizontal posture, and standing upright and snapping the bill opposite another bird engaging in the same display.

Tuan [ 32] describes the opposite of the upright body as being the back that can be perceived as the dark and the past, being in the shadow.

Pieces like "La Le? de Musique" (2000) -- a small work that shows two men each blowing at a piece of paper from opposite sides, keeping it upright -- have a riddlelike quality that evokes the Belgian surrealist Magritte, among others.

Balance, that magical ability to stay upright when being pulled in the opposite direction by inexorable forces, has never been my strong suit.

Tynes kicked the ball toward the uprights and began running for the opposite tunnel exit before the football reached the goal posts.

While Amor sat bolt upright and unmoved on the sideline, his opposite number Kevin Muscat was his usual excitable self, barking instructions, pacing along the technical area and cajoling the referees assistant.

The emo/pop punk/metal band Blood Command are sitting opposite me in a tense, upright huddle.

It is however unclear why these explanations would not apply to upright biological motion figures, which show the opposite inversion effect.

Some readers read reversals as merely opposite to a card's upright meaning, but this can reduce your reading to a level so basic as to be of little value.