prop

Example Sentences

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Marcos Ayerza, the former Leicester prop, picked him up at Buenos Aires airport early on Saturday morning and took him to a Club Newman game.

From BBC

Academics were useful props as Epstein embarked on a campaign to rehabilitate his image as a science-oriented philanthropist after his 2008 criminal conviction.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the bottom, there was a ladder propped against the rear wall.

From BBC

Europe needs such workers—and their income—to prop up a pension system so top-heavy that French retirees now outearn working age adults, according to the Luxembourg Income Study, a research agency.

From The Wall Street Journal

The greenback was also hit last month by increasing talk of a coordinated intervention to prop up the competing Japanese yen.

From MarketWatch