He was proppedagainst the wall, in another room, asleep.
He drew his eyes away, glanced around, and spied a black portmanteau propped beside a packing-case in the angle made by the wall and the flooring.
The poet reclined limply against the hedge, and with his head propped upon a carpet-bag gazed dolefully into the moon's face.
It must have seemed a curious endeavor, for my parents would watch me in good-natured humor as I sat enthralled, a mere twig propped between numerous pillows, lingering over pictures as if I was haunted by food's memory.
I had problems sleeping until we put pillows under the egg-crate mattress so I was propped up on a steep incline.
You'll get used to it," one particularly brash fellow would comment as I propped myself up on the counter after a long and grueling siege.
Since my door was propped open, I had noticed him sitting in his wheelchair and muttering complaints or idly sucking his gums.
Doris from the depths of several pillows with which she was propped up in bed.
He had not been settled in his corner three minutes, his wooden leg propped on another chair, when up the wide stairs from the beach appeared his two granddaughters, accompanied by another girl.
I ran up to the carriage, my knees knocking together so that I thought I should fall by the wheel; and inside I see Hetty, and by her my dearest Theo, propped with a pillow.
And now of course you are anxious to hear what took place when papa jumped into the landau by the side of poor little mamma, propped up by her pillows.
In the wind and rain the fire could not burn at all had they not by means of a stick propped up a hurdle to windward, and thus sheltered it.
A hurdle or two propped up with stakes, and against which some of the straw from a mound has been thrown, keeps off some of the wind.
Miss Jemima Tadpoddle was propped up in bed with a dozen pillows, while Miss Jerusha Clattermouth was bathing her temples with eau-de-Cologne, and the sick woman's mother was holding a smelling bottle to her nose.
She was not propped up with pillows, as she was when I first visited her, but she was flat on the bed.
Iris, her troubled face resting on her hands, her elbows propped on the rails of the poop on the port side, looked at Philip with an intense sadness that was seemingly lost on him.
In consequence, Lieutenant D'Hubert, sitting propped up with pillows, received the overtures made to him next day by the statement that the affair was of a nature which could not bear discussion.
The Chief's cantaloupe was iced; his kipper covered with a hot plate; the morning paperpropped against McAndrew's hymn.
Then, because the rest was hopeless, they left him there, propped against the wall, with the lantern beside him.
The menu was propped against a framed verse: But I ha' lived and I ha' worked!
Propped up in his chair, he rioted in lather, sliced a piece out of his right ear, and shaved the back of his neck by touch, in lieu of better treatment.
He was still the Chief; he lay on the floor propped up against something and directed the fight.
Afterward he went down to his cabin, hung round with his new equipment, and put away the photograph of a very nice Toronto girl, which had been propped up back of his hairbrushes.
Then she took the boy's photograph out of its hiding place and propped it on top of her trunk.
When relieved from his post the picket made his bed on two rails propped above the pools of water and melting snow.
With their caps between their knees, the candle propped up in a bayonet, and a hard-tack box for a table, they whispered back and forth and shuffled and dealt until some of those caps were filled with postal currency.
Will he thatpropped a trembling throne Not stand for right when right's his own?
Fidele's Grassy Tomb The Squire sat propped in a pillowed chair, His eyes were alive and clear of care, But well he knew that the hour was come To bid good-bye to his ancient home.
Lance lifted his son back once more out of reach of the instrument, set him comfortably against the propped open door, took up the banjo and commenced to play a lively air for the boy's diversion.
The Duchesse was sitting propped up in bed, looking unusually grim, and not by any means beautified by the wrap in which she was enveloped.
She propped her face on her hands, her hair falling about her shoulders in a cloud of sunset, and stared into the glass.
By means of the valises and cloaks, Fergus was propped up into a half-sitting position; and he remained where he was until, after nightfall, the din of battle ceased.
Propped up in bed, with multitudinous pillows about him, was a very mammoth of a man in heliotrope-silk pajamas.
Sheila knew it was useless to stop him, so she propped him up with pillows and let him go on.
In the loft the human bundles were propped against the wall and the meeting came to attention.
Seizing the chair he trundled it across the room; on the floor he found Ten Euyck's gun andpropped it into the passive fingers.
There was not a cushion in the room, but she brought two pillows from her own bed, and with them propped the head and shoulders of the unconscious man.
He emerged, dripping, and the long-repressed eel shot out at the crown of his head in a rapid spasm, leaving him a mere husk propped against the elm.
Moore, with dragging step, approached an aspen log that lay off the ground, propped by the stump, and here he leaned for support.
She was sitting up in bed, propped up with pillows, and she wore a warm, woolly jacket or dressing-gown.
Belllounds lay propped against the wall, sagging there, laboring of chest, sweating of face.
She was on the floor, the bulk of the lounge between her and the spot where Summerlad had fallen; her shoulders propped against Bel's knee, her head resting in the crook of his arm.
Sprawled on the flat of his back, with his curly head propped on his hands and his lime-eaten boots spread at a comfortable angle, Billy gazed upon their completed labor.
Reclining his head, propped on his hand, he watched Billy and Calixto, both now of one color, each at his task, one working the blowers while the other dumped fresh ore and charcoal into the loading trap.
After placing the letter on the table she sat, one oval cheek propped on her hand, her dark head drooping over it like a tired flower.
Servius glanced uneasily at him as he sat staring into the fire, his chin propped on his mighty fist.
Reeling backward on unsteady legs, he fell with his shoulders against a tent-pole, and propped upright, he lifted his great sword with both hands.
So the wretched thing pushed the window open all by itself directly they propped it up, and it's tumbled through into the moat, and they are most awfully waxy.
One chap on a bicycle almost tumbled off his machine, and then he got off it and propped it against a gate and sat down in the hedge to laugh properly.
But the sillies went and propped up a milk-pan against the window.
The book stood open before her on the kitchen table, propped against the scales.
A Bible propped itself open, leaves downwards, against the mound she made.
Skinner was propped against the corral fence opposite, his face distorted with suffering, and Gallagher was rubbing his ankle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
