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Sentence count:213+14Posted:2017-01-24Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: erecthonorablelaw-abidingmoralreputablerespectablestandingupstandingverticalAntonym: dishonestSimilar words: sprightlyrightall rightright awaybrightenright wingforthrightfrightfulMeaning: [‚ʌp'raɪt]  n. 1. a vertical structural member as a post or stake 2. a piano with a vertical sounding board. adj. 1. in a vertical position; not sloping 2. of moral excellence 3. upright in position or posture. 
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61 A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
62 He was sitting on an upright chair beside his bed, reading.
63 When she heard the news, she jerked upright in surprise.
64 He jerked upright when the phone rang.
65 Power can not ride on an upright back.
66 Corpses were carried along,[www.Sentencedict.com] standing upright.
67 There was an upright piano and a piano bench.
68 It is a pleasure to stand upright again.
69 He holds his ink stick upright.
70 He stood bolt upright, like a soldier.
71 Upright bassist Kevin Pate also acknowledges his paternal influences.
72 Still half concussed, Delaney rolled upright and staggered.
73 He staggered as I clambered on, but stayed upright.
74 She sat bolt upright, aches and pains quite forgotten.
75 He sat upright, leaving the gun on the floorboards.
76 The room contained two hard chairs, a desk and an upright piano.
77 With the breath sucked out of her lungs, she could barely stand upright in the face of the gusts.
78 The spears were collected and stacked upright in the prow, inside a metal ring attached to the swan's head.
79 A small lamp was mounted on an upright stanchion near the head of each staircase.
80 But he leapt through the staggering sharpness of it and achieved an upright position.
81 The tamales are placed, standing upright, on a steamer rack in an enormous kettle.
82 Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end, iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.
83 She had woken then, jerking bolt upright, her heart pounding against her ribs.
84 Steel guy wires hold it upright; at various elevations strobe lights flash a warning to aircraft -- a slow arterial pulse.
85 If knocked over, you stood upright again, at attention, and took the punishment until the staff tired of it.
86 Examples with stone foundations are also known at Bourton-on-the-Water and Ashton, the latter with unusual upright limestone slabs.
87 She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley, scratches her bottom through the cambric, and yawns.
88 He stood on the moonlit grass, swaying slightly, holding himself upright but still fast asleep.
89 Keeping your body upright and tummy pulled in tight, draw the raised leg across the body, leading with the ankle.
90 New plants arise vegetatively from dormant buds on the short upright rhizome of the main root.
More similar words: sprightlyrightall rightright awaybrightenright wingforthrightfrightfulfrighteneddivine rightcivil rightsbill of rightsrighteousnesshighlightuprisingfightlightnightmightheightmightyslightweightflighteightheightyplightdelightfighterin sight
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