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Example sentences for: upright

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Television -- The Upright Citizens Brigade (Comedy Central).
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.
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."
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."
Now, after decades of watching sweaty Vietnam vets sitting bolt upright in bed after acid-soaked nightmares of their buddies getting disemboweled, moviegoers regard such characters as so much Freudian chin music.