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Example sentences for: erect

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Concurrently, the use of an arboreal habitat and the adoption of an erect posture moved the nose away from the ground, with its rich varieties of odors.
The Godzilla who lumbers through a metropolis on two legs, erect, slowly crushing cars and knocking over buildings, robotically training his radioactive breath on anything and everything he sees, is a mythical vision of Armageddon.
An impeccable, moustachioed Sergeant Major MacMahan, gaunt like all the others, wearing the beret and polished insignia of a Scots regiment, stood erect as a flagpole at one end of the barrack hut surveying it all, the angel in charge.
And finally, while the public's grief over Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato's death might not have been on a par with that afforded John Kennedy Jr., the Globe reports that Plato's 14-year-old son, Tyler, has plans to erect a memorial to his late mother at an Oklahoma sandwich shop.
The religious observation of All Souls’ Day, or Día de los Muertos, on November 2, is an occasion for many families to erect altars specifically for a parent or other family member who has recently died.