prop up in English

support, hold up

Use "prop up" in a sentence

1. Money would prop up your head?

2. We should prop up the fence.

3. The government refuses to prop up inefficient industries.

4. Prop up with a cocktail stick from behind if necessary.

5. Federal government sent this to prop up Star City Bank.

6. The plan that prop up had ended the first batch.

7. The government introduced measures to prop up the stock market.

8. I’d probably prop up proper pop-up purple paper people

9. Second, the state will continue to prop up inefficient state enterprises.

10. We had to prop up the roof with a wooden post.

11. The inquiry learning system and its prop up the conditions are structured.

12. The builders are trying to prop up the crumbling walls of the church.

13. Life is a kind of pressure. We should learn to prop up ourselves.

14. They had to prop up the tree with long poles under the branches.

15. They prop up prices for growers by controlling production rather than through federal subsidies.

16. If you have difficulty sitting like this, prop up your back against a wall.

17. Affection is life prop up, when justice and affection crisscross, how should choose again?

18. Abut (v.) to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

19. They are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues.

20. Attempts by the UK government to prop up the pound on the exchange markets degenerated into chaos.

21. 8 The headfirst forward roll requires press down with feet, jump, prop up with and roll consistently.

22. 25 But I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant , or prop up humbug.

23. They showed no qualms in spending ￡3 billion in a futile attempt to prop up the Pound.

24. The third thing on my checklist is relations with neighboring friendly societies that may prop up a society.

25. 14 They showed no qualms in spending ￡3 billion in a futile attempt to prop up the Pound.

26. Mr Lamont's squandering of ￡1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped.

27. I am a loiterer, but to elder brother dissimilarity , so big Hong door, also want you to prop up!

28. Pictures of dead children mean little to governments like Russia who expend their own resources to prop up Assad.

29. Beings that prop up and promote the physical tend to find humans just as naive as those that deny it

30. Recast as ‘Stimmies,’ Federal Relief Checks Drive a Stock Buying spree The government set out to prop up the economy

31. 4 I am a loiterer, but to elder brother dissimilarity , so big Hong door, also want you to prop up!

32. Wrapped up like onions we shuffle out over the frozen ground; prop up the line where our sheets are flagging.

33. Sex is used by histrionics to prop up their self-esteem and to regulate their labile sense of self-worth.

34. Bolstered beds are best for dogs that like to prop up their head while napping, cuddle into a corner, or feel secure

35. To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

36. The government announced it was pumping 15 trillion yen ( $182bn ; £113bn ) into the economy to prop up the markets - which slumped on opening .

37. In the end, if we artificially prop up less efficient or innovative Competitors, then it will be the consumers who end up suffering

38. A difficult problem in a heel-and-toe walking race is to judge correctly whether there is any "Bipedal prop-up" stage or not.

39. These are tools for adjusting economic policy decisions, since these policies prop up the single Economic and Monetary Union, which lacks precise statistical instruments.

40. It is spending billions of dollars a year to prop up Assad and wage proxy wars at the expense of supporting its own people.

41. Market distortions may occur because wage subsidies "prop up" wages and so bypass the necessary wage adjustment that must occur to balance labour markets.

42. On one side is the European Central Bank, which is spending billions to prop up Europe's weak-kneed bond markets and safeguard the common currency.

43. Bolster: 1 v support and strengthen “ Bolster morale” Synonyms: Bolster up Type of: reenforce , reinforce make stronger v prop up with a pillow or Bolster Type of: prop , prop up , shore , shore up support by placing against something solid or rigid v add padding to Synonyms: pad Type of: fill , fill up , make full make full, also in a

44. The exploitation and further development of huai-pig vertical integrated project that may be the supporting industry needs the support and prop up from the government.

45. Australia’s government will subsidize 800,000 half-price airfares as part of a A$1.2 billion ($920 million) package to prop up the nation’s Ailing tourism industry

46. At a time wage growth is almost stagnant -- average hourly earnings in November were up 6 percent year on year -- prosperous Americans alone can not prop up the economy.

47. The Rainforest Action Network thinks the American Petroleum Institute and its oil lobby allies are behind a slew of fake Twitter accounts designed to prop up public opinion about the pipeline.

48. WHAT is a Boppy? The Boppy is marketed as a pillow to help position a baby when breastfeeding, but is also used to prop up baby for spoon feeding, for playtime, and even for napping.