Example sentences for: prop

How can you use “prop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As predicted in yesterday's Chatterbox, the relatively good news contained in the overall admissions figures for the entire 8-campus University of California system--which showed black and Hispanic admissions dropping by only 17 and 7 percent, respectively, in the wake of Prop. 209's rollback of race preferences--was either ignored or buried by the press.

  • But then, why are we being paid, by the medium that's supplanting print, to prop up the illusion of print's importance?

  • One university official is quoted by the LAT as seeing in the shift the message that California's secondary schools must improve, while the paper has Prop.

  • Ebert lays into the film, saying it's "shameless in its use of mental retardation as a gimmick, a prop, and a plot device.

  • The WP runs an editorial today calling for a vote against Prop.


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