propping

Example Sentences

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Automakers, long laser-focused on the new-car market, are now pouring resources into propping up used-car sales, aftermarket parts and maintenance work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

And propping up Surf City — a wealthy beach town so full of itself that it makes Santa Monica seem as humble as Santa Ana — as the last, best hope to save California?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

In recent years, wealthy Americans have played a bigger role in propping up the economy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Elderly and propping himself up with canes, he said this conflict was of a different magnitude.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

As I was crawling blindly my face rammed into one of the concrete slabs propping one of the table’s legs.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane