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prop up

VERB
  1. support by placing against something solid or rigid
    shore and buttress an old building

How To Use prop up In A Sentence

  • There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad. Worldly Ways and Byways
  • Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro. Times, Sunday Times
  • In December, the RBI placed limits on unhedged foreign currency positions that banks can hold overnight and also banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forward contracts with the same underlying exposure as part of measures to prop up the local currency. RBI: Forex Trading Curbs Temporary
  • He knew that Moscow could no longer afford to prop up its deeply indebted allies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro. Times, Sunday Times
  • No doubt Brawn must have known his car was going to be a winner and invested some of his own substantial wealth to prop up the team. Times, Sunday Times
  • The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values. Progressive Bloggers
  • The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
  • The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were "covered by the house". Tea Party vs. Two Party
  • This is the happy-clappy voice of Google's PR operation, a vast exercise in passive aggression designed to prop up the perception that Eric, Larry and Sergey really, really, really, don't want to do evil. Google Vs. Governments: Google Reacts To Nations' Privacy Complaints
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