prop
Example Sentences
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In Tel Aviv, a crowd of hostage families and their supporters marched with six prop coffins.
From BBC
Inside, they mapped the restaurant, the exhibition route and the upper decks, and propped up boards with renderings of how the project would look.
Ian McLauchlan: Known as 'Mighty Mouse', the prop was capped 43 times by Scotland and captained his country on a then record 19 occasions.
From BBC
However, the record high in household debt signals a cautionary tale: Consumers can prop up the economy until they can’t.
From Barron's
Even as it propped me up, the cane undermined my ability to carry things around.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
