put upright

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She said in a statement that a train car “carrying hazardous material has been put upright and is being removed from the area of the other derailed cars” and the EPA was sending a team.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023

In the inside put upright standards about five feet apart, with cross-pieces to support the scaffolding.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

A group of such wigwams made a village, which was often surrounded with a stockade of tree trunks put upright in the ground and touching one another.

From A Brief History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach

Marty declared that the trees began to ‘sigh’ as soon as they were put upright, ‘though when they are lying down they don’t sigh at all.’

From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)