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Example sentences for: propping

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Lines such as "I am the self-consumer of my woes" have a distinction and force that need no propping up by the pathos of the life behind the writing.
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.
Discubitory means `lying down whilst propping oneself on one's elbow.
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.
(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).