PROP in a Sentence
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42 example sentences for PROP, such as:
1. Truth will stand without a prop.
2. He propped his stick against the wall.
3. He was that child's stay, and she was his prop.
4. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.
5. He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
2. He propped his stick against the wall.
3. He was that child's stay, and she was his prop.
4. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.
5. He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PROP
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prop
n. a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
n. any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 He was that child's stay, and she was his prop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
2 This ruin can be recognized by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam adjusted like a prop.
3 I took that dear hand, held it a moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder: being so much lower of stature than he, I served both for his prop and guide.
4 Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road.
5 "I will tell you this," he said, rising and trying with nervously twitching fingers to prop up his pipe in a corner, but finally abandoning the attempt.
6 Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
7 He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
8 He carried her up the stairs to her bedroom and while the alarmed household fled hither and yon for hot bricks, blankets and whisky, he propped her on the pillows of her bed.
9 Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot.
10 I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.'
11 I found her propped up on the couch in her bay-window, with her foot in a big slipper.
12 He lay down in bed, but did not put out the candles, and his head propped on his hand, he fell into long reveries.
13 He was not very quickly found; he had hidden himself in the very thickest part of the garden, and with his chin propped on his folded hands, he was sitting lost in meditation.
14 She turned her head nearer to me, and it seemed to me in the darkness that she propped herself on her arm.
15 He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.
Example Sentence:
1 Truth will stand without a prop.
2 A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.
3 Using our men and women in uniform as a political prop is not funny, John.
4 The boys propped up the ramshackle clubhouse with a couple of boards.
5 He propped his stick against the wall.
6 The poet's voiceneed not merely be the record of man , it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure andprevail.