Example sentences for: propping

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

  • 5. "Despite the fact that Mexican taxpayers are on the hook for $71 billion to bail out a host of banks that the Mexican government has been propping up for most of this decade, the government continues to insist that no public official did anything wrong and that no one should be punished.

  • And the embargo once served worthwhile purposes--forcing the Soviet Union to spend resources propping up Castro and denying Cuba resources to foment revolution elsewhere.

  • Until the end of the 1980s, Soviet trade and subsidies were crucial factors in propping up Cuba’s heavily centralized and often badly planned economy.

  • The U.S. military also plans to target the Iraqi Republican Guards' favorite toys--artillery weapons, tanks, and other heavy weapons--as well as their hardened bunkers and munitions factories, hoping that Saddam's "elite" troops will finally decide the price of propping up the dictator has become too high.

  • Scientists are forever seeking new solutions for propping it up, but at its present rate of slippage, you still have at least another 200 years to see it standing more or less upright.


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