Propped [verb]

Definition of Propped:

hold up or lean against

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Sentence/Example of Propped:

When she was not at home, it sat on K.'s dresser, propped against his collar-box.

His head dropped back on his chair; he propped his sagging legs on a stool.

And when she had propped you up against the bank, she came for me.

He propped himself against a wall and reproved his tormentors in Latin.

Helen sat up and propped her chin in her hands with her elbows on her knees.

He was evidently a cripple, propped up in a strange wheelchair.

Eric propped the letter against his looking-glass, as he began to dress.

"Like herself—alive to the fingertips," he thought, and then he propped it against the pier-glass.

The old lady was propped up with pillows, and Natalina was fussing about her.

Kate was propped up in bed, and the window of her room was open.