Sentence examples for upright support from inspiring English sources

In Jennifer Newman's sculptures, the structure is an upright support with totemic overtones.

The RAV4′s seats are a fine counterexample to that trend, though, with upright support that isn't at all stiff.

He sat upright, supported by the tilt of a hospital bed.

A massive granite beam, shaken off its two upright supports, lay on the ground.

The type of con struction permitted the use of slender upright supports and a correspondingly larger window area.

Then they measured and cut boards for the bed, platen, and upright supports (or cheeks) of the press.

The dolmen consisted of several upright supports and a flat roofing slab, all covered by a protective mound of earth that in most cases has weathered away.

The load distributed at feet varied narrowly; however, it was significantly greater (p<0.01) at upright supported back, compared to unsupported back.

The bridge, which spans a tributary of the River Medway at Hartfield, East Sussex, was in danger of collapsing because its upright supports had almost rotted away.

The movements of 5 landmarks (lower incisor, and condyles and molars bilaterally) were tracked from maximum intercuspation into 4 independent rest positions (upright supported, upright unsupported, supine supported, and supine unsupported) using an optoelectric (Optotrak; Northern Digital, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) computer system.

For two decades, the state of the art in American bridge design had been the reliable Howe wooden truss system, which added threaded iron upright supports to a classic structure of diagonal wooden trusses.