How to Use prop up in a Sentence

prop up

phrasal verb

• Make sure the bag is propped up in some way so that the sides of the bag do not touch your plant’s foliage.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
• With your feet propped up on the bed, fuzzy lining soothes your soles—and your soul.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
• Big gains in shares of tech behemoths have propped up the S&P 500.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 23 June 2023
• Pinar drove Ibrahim to work with her one arm and took him food and tea when his leg was propped up.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Plus, since the bottom doesn’t heat up, it can be placed on the floor or propped up on a table.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• There are a few frames on the wall but more are propped up on the floor or set on pieces of furniture.
  — Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• The 15th is propping up an overgrown plant in my bathroom window, and the 16th?
  — Laura Gurfein, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• The result, for me, was worth the temporary aches and sleeping propped up — and yes, even the money.
  — Patricia Tortolani, Allure, 3 Apr. 2024
• The skeletons were propped up with fishing line and a friend added lights that blink to the beat of various Swift songs.
  — Nicole Pelletiere, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• How to Do It: Lie on one side with your legs straight and prop up your upper body on your forearm.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 13 July 2023
• Sting: Joe would be at rehearsals in his carry cot, propping up the bass drum.
  — Linda Laban, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• She's propped up in a high chair, smiling with a floral headband.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• It had been placed feet-to-feet with his wife’s hospital bed, so the Carters could be propped up and face each other and talk.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Her boots had a light, maple-colored brown suede upper that hit just below the knee, propped up on a dark wood heel.
  — Tanisha Pina, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• The quarterback won’t be propping up the rushing numbers in a big way.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2024
• Her dog has also taken two steps on his own while propped up in his walker frame.
  — Cathy Free, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Bottom Line: Don't rely on adverbs to prop up weak verbs.
  — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The big guns had deep pockets to prop up yet another franchise.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• Beijing has been struggling to prop up what have been some of the world's worst-performing markets this year.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• My son Marley was immediately taken with the board and used it to prop up the iPad and lay out his toys.
  — Jessica Rach, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024
• Can San Diego, with its multitude of coastal distractions, prop up a top-tier sports league?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Tuck into the mushroom tart, a taste of the forest atop fine pastry, or grilled skin-on trout, propped up by a field of creamy and meaty Sea Island red peas.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• In contrast, Disney’s parks and cruise business has been a bright spot, in many ways propping up the whole company.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Remakes can be tricky; there’s a reason why so many of us have been resistant toward the bevy of reboots that have propped up in the last few years.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 23 May 2023
• The human spine isn’t as straight as the I-10 but curves along its length, including the places usually propped up by a pillow, such as the head and lower back.
  — Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• None of them appeared to do anything, except, perhaps, provide a place to hide money or prop up a scheme.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
• That strategy requires a lot of steel, so the party props up a bunch of steel companies to keep projects going.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• Schiff ran ads propping up Garvey in the hopes of avoiding a bruising Democrat-on-Democrat race.
  — Marisa Lagos, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
• With flowers, crosses and flags of home, dozens of people on Sunday propped up Easter memorials by the west end of the bridge to the fathers and sons who died.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
• In fact, propping up Russia’s war in Ukraine is only one of several ways in which China has become a major challenge to Europe.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024