What is "propping up"

Usage examples of "propping up".

She sprawled on her stomach, elbows propping up her chin, keeping up a nearly contin­.

Seven years later, Sam's bear still sat propping up her growing collection of singles, preventing Leo Sayer, David Essex and Slade from tipping over like dominoes and crushing the Osmonds.

She worked on, propping up the ladder against the wall, filling all the cracks for as long as natural light would allow.

Dinadin through a slick of blood, Trosk's hand propping up his bruised head.

Butler was propping up the squashed geraniums that flopped in the white-washed tire in her yard.

The wizard appeared angry and, propping up the elf's head, forced the rapidly dimming eyes to look at the box.

The area was still largely intact-old-age pensioners stubbornly propping up their hydrangea bushes-but real-estate syndicates would eventually mow them all down.

It seemed they were all over the place, lying on their backs under half-reconstructed consoles or propping up new plasma conduits.

Its long-ago construction crew had tried to make it two-storied and called it quits after propping up a sagging loft-type contri­.