Example sentences for: upright

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

  • Near the highest elevation in Rhode Island in the woods stands a heap of rocks, a marker, about six feet high surmounted by a flat, upright slab adding another two feet to its height.

  • 3) Shearing: The upright strands are shorn to a uniform height, which stops the strands from getting tangled up like dreadlocks, a problem that leads to pilling.

  • Bush seems prepared to spill some voters off the right side of the GOP yacht in order to get it upright again.

  • In an opening monologue not long ago, Late Night host Jay Leno told his audience that Air Force One had hit a patch of turbulence during a recent trip, forcing President Clinton to return the flight attendant "to her full upright and locked position."

  • The conservative tabloid Daily Mail said that "last week's pictures of embattled Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin clinging to one another like drunks trying to stay upright do not exactly lend weight to the think tank's call for an elected monarchy."


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