Sentence examples for upright though from inspiring English sources

Most stood resolutely upright, though a few leaned crazily and might have benefited from staking.

Mr. Dylan's manner, too, is upright, though good humored, even wry.

General Sachet emerges as a fundamentally honest and upright, though occasionally ruthless and intellectually limited, soldier who turns to religion, like so many other Iraqis, as the regime putrefies.

The particulars: Taller and heavier than Lucy, she weighed about 120 pounds and stood four feet tall (yes, she probably walked upright, though she was still an agile tree-climber).

For her candor and with-it-ness, Lorelai is rewarded with a daughter who is morally upright though hardly a stuffed shirt -- a self-possessed girl of 18 who has thus far preserved her chastity.

Galba, Latin in full Servius Galba Caesar Augustus, original name Servius Sulpicius Galba, (born Dec. 24, 3 bc died Jan . 15 ad 69, Rome), Roman emperor for seven months (ad 68 69), whose administration was priggishly upright, though his advisers allegedly were corrupt.

In Thomson's aging pantheon, forever upright even though the plaster cladding falls off in pieces, Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray still loom like gods.

Now 41, he cut an upright figure, though his once-flowing dark locks have been cut short and are flecked with grey.

These dancers lie, sit, kneel — there are several memorable group descents to the floor — but mainly they're upright; and though they use every part of the body, no part is livelier than those feet: traveling, jumping, hopping, turning, balancing, beating.

A robot can walk upright, even though it isn't an animal.

Unlike earlier apes, Lucy walked fully upright, even though her brain and body weren't much bigger than a chimp's.