Example sentences for: upright

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

  • The parents of Sarah Richfield must be very proud--here she is, just thirty and already written up in the Wall Street Journal ! Oh sure, it was for having sex with her boyfriend in the bathroom on a plane while arguing through the door with the flight attendant telling her to er, return herself to the fully upright and locked position.

  • Television -- The Upright Citizens Brigade (Comedy Central).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • They reach out to each other like a couple lost in the wilderness, one upright and confident, the other one slouched down in despair.


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