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Example sentences for: upright

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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.
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.
A cave near the town of Zhoukoudian held the skull of a small-brained but upright ancestor of mankind who lived half a million years ago.
Several fruits were unable to remain upright.
For the latter, the only value in their story is in its salaciousness: If they had told their benefactors that Bill Clinton was an upright man who never told a lie or looked twice at a woman, they wouldn't have got a dime.