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10 examples of Upright in a sentence

And it had turned me from my upright, standing, running form, into a seated compromise of myself.
My research taught us that we needed to remind Mark's damaged and dormant spinal cord of its upright, standing, running form, and we found San Francisco-based engineers at Ekso Bionics, who created this robotic exoskeleton that would allow Mark to stand and walk in the lab that we started to build in Dublin.
Stroud makes an impression as an intense, racially-bigoted hit-man while Peters adds just a tinge of class as an upright police detective who enlists Brown's aid.
Henry Fonda was always quite surprising pulling off a villainous role, and his mangy varmit in "Firecreek" is no exception(as an actor, he seems such an upright citizen that it takes a few scenes to accept him as a scurrilous killer, but he certainly makes it work).
Moral emotions like empathy are as much an outcome of the blind workings of adaptation as our upright stance and opposable thumbs – traits that are entrenched in a species through the proliferation of particular genes.
In the center stood an upright wheel geared to rudder cables running to the Nautilus's stern.
I was leading the peaceful existence of an upright man, doing no harm to anybody.
"And he is a victim," she went on, notwithstanding the threatening attitude of her husband, "an upright man killed by a rascal.
One of the most popular personages, in his own circle, present, was a little fat man, with a ring of upright black hair round his head, and an extensive bald plain on the top of it--Doctor Slammer, surgeon to the 97th.
Upright against the door we saw Admiral Meaulnes shaking off the frost from his overall before he came in, standing there head erect and as if dazzled with rapture!