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Example sentences for: upright
How can you use “upright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Television -- The Upright Citizens Brigade (Comedy Central).
People decorate houses, shops, offices, and even cars with a bouquet of pine and bamboo, symbols of evergreen stability and upright behavior.
Several fruits were unable to remain upright.
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.
They reach out to each other like a couple lost in the wilderness, one upright and confident, the other one slouched down in despair.