Frases de ejemplo en inglés con «upright»

He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.
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Even after it was hit, the pole was still upright.
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An empty bag can't stand upright.
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Stand upright when I'm talking to you.
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The soul of commerce is upright dealing.
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He stood in an upright position.
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Butter, bread and green cheese; whoever can't say that is not an upright Frisian.
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She stood bolt upright.
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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Contrarians are often very upright people.
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In a sunny spot stood a pleasant old farm-house close by a deep river, and from the house down to the water side grew great burdock leaves, so high, that under the tallest of them a little child could stand upright. The spot was as wild as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch; she was beginning to get tired of her task, for the little ones were a long time coming out of their shells, and she seldom had any visitors.
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Dear passengers, we now ask you to place your luggage under the seat in front of you, lift the table and backrest upright, lower the armrest, fasten your safety belt and open the window shutters.
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Doing what is right fills the upright with joy, but evil-doers with terror.
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"Scarce stood her image in the camp, when bright / with flickering flames her staring eyeballs glared. / Salt sweat ran down her; thrice, a wondrous sight! / with shield and quivering spear she sprang upright."
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As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.
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Mute with fear, / perplext, aghast I stood, and upright rose my hair.
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The upright love thee.
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There are two types of pianos, namely the grand piano and the upright piano.
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He was so drunk that he couldn't stay upright.
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He was so drunk that he couldn't keep upright.
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It's hard for an empty bag to stay upright.
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These bottles should be placed upright, not lying down.
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The sentries stood bolt upright and stock-still.
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The sentries were standing bolt upright and motionless.
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Hold the stick upright.
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Ziri was sitting upright.
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In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement, and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

You stood upright and walked toward the window.

A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun made by a priest of Zuñi for the regulation of the time for planting and harvesting, for determining the new year, and for fixing the dates of certain other ceremonial observances.

Salvage workers have begun an effort to upright the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground 20 months ago off the coast of Italy.

Jonas saw Amelia sitting upright on her bed.

Lukas was driving in a very stiff and upright position.

Tobias fixed his passenger seat into an upright position.

I stood the table upright.

Burkina Faso literally means "land of upright men."

The creature was moving upright on two legs.

Dmitri was standing upright in the middle of the field.

She stood there a little shyly at first, as slender and as gracefully upright as a birch, and her dark hair caught the fire of the sinking sun with a bronze glow like that of the turkey's wing.

Store the cutting board upright or on its side to allow air circulation.

Other unusual characteristics of a seahorse are its upright stance, with its prehensile tail — which allows it to hold on to coral and other sea objects. Their tiny size, usually less than 15 centimeters, gives them a "jewel-like" appearance. And seahorses don't have the scales of typical fish; instead they have a dark, exo-skeleton of bony plates for protection and camouflage.

Please stow your tray tables and return your seatbacks to their full upright position.

In a land of hunchbacks, upright elegance will be a notable exception.

Sit upright while eating.