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Example sentences for "erect attitude"

  • He had seized his fusil, and wriggled his body into an erect attitude; but he felt powerless to do more.

  • As this thought occurred to the speaker, he raised himself into an erect attitude, as if to get a better view.

  • The prisoner rose from his seat; and succeeded in getting himself into an erect attitude.

  • Instead of holding himself in a bending position, and walking supported on his arms, man walks in an erect attitude--the truly biped mode of progress.

  • Thus, perhaps, the chief fact which determines the erect attitude so characteristic of man is the excessive development of his brain, and the consequent development of the brain-case.

  • But no; he was still standing firm upon the last made round of the ladder, and in an erect attitude, as if he had no fear of falling.

  • The breast of each swimmer had struck against it, the shock raising them into a half-erect attitude, from which they had no need to return to the horizontal.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about two; absolutely certain; bitter enemy; bottomed boat; brotherly love; easily enough; erect attitude; erect position; erect posture; father and; given place; good boy; lightning rods; loyal citizens; moist meadows; national vice; pale olive; plane parallel; sixth dynasty; throbbing heart; thus forming; various periods; watched them; white mustard