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.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
prop
 n.  object placed beneath or against a structure to keep it from falling or shaking
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...
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
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.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
10  I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
11  I found her propped up on the couch in her bay-window, with her foot in a big slipper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
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.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
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.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  She turned her head nearer to me, and it seemed to me in the darkness that she propped herself on her arm.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
15  He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
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.