propped-up

• “Beneath a propped-up wooden fishing boat, colourful paint peeling off in strips, two men sit musing over a game of cards.”

  The Guardian: Surfing: a lucky break in Kerala

• “The propped-up, broken structures need to be fixed or replaced.”

  The Huffington Post: David A. Love: The Incompatibility Of Christianity And American Capitalism

• “It may not look like its current propped-up form this time next year, but NPR will continue to advocate for liberal policies and report the news as it sees it.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Grenell: Vivian Schiller Created This Blow-Back

• “The way you defend freedom is in the real military, not some propped-up group of people with too much time on their hands and machine guns.”

  Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist

• “But every estimate is a guess, and when you get right down to it, any billion is too many billion for a propped-up blight on humanity -- even if we were the ones who propped them up.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How to Be a Killionaire

• “This wide net dragged mostly through shallow waters pulls in everything from a James Turrell hologram and Dan Flavin's fluorescent hum to Mr. Serra's propped-up slabs of lead and Frank Stella's shaped canvases.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles

• “A few hours later, Mason withdrew his propped-up feet from the desk and popped in another disc.”

  Fictionaut: In Search of a Meaningful Moment

• “I asked, using my propped-up arm to prevent him from sprawling me out on my own desk, though I had been there before.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Kettle of Vultures

• “After a short lunch break sitting under an old propped-up car hood out of the rain, I intend to continue south shadowing the highway again, pending swamps, random high-order explosions or undead chain gangs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile

• “In this case, there are many villains, from the local to the global level, and, similarly, the victims range from homeowners losing their homes to high-level bankers whose propped-up investments fell down.”

  Who Benefits From the Subprime Crisis? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

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