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Example sentences for: propping

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All that having been said, it must be acknowledged that as long as people buy books, publishers do not really much care whether they are read, used as doorstops, or for propping up a sagging curio cabinet.
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.
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.
(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).
Discubitory means `lying down whilst propping oneself on one's elbow.