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How to use prop up in a sentence

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Hospital chiefs have dipped into capital reserves to prop up an ailing bank balance.
So wittingly or not, these corporations are helping to prop up a government notorious for its sheer awfulness and brutality.
It is reckoned that emigrants sent home the equivalent of 2 billion which helped to prop up our ailing economy.
A lot of communities either try to prop up their long-established economic pillars or, failing that, they try to attract something big and new.
He was siphoning off funds from the post office to prop up his flagging retail business, Croydon Crown Court heard.
More recently we have relied on consumer spending to prop up the economy during the bust.
The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon.
Steve and his girlfriend Amy busied themselves with a cheesecake to prop up the just-picked blackberries and raspberries from the garden.
All that did was prop up the company that never made much commercial success anyway for a few more years, enriching a few people on the way.
This cash is given to farmers across the EU to help prop up their businesses through massive subsidies.
Lace locks cinch and secure four mini-poles that prop up the roomy corners.
And is it really the business of government to prop up the ancient memorials of a bygone era?
If you can't reach the floor, use a pillow or bolster to prop up your feet.
The first step is to prop up the fire-damaged building with safety scaffolding.
In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business.
And then let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad.
There are no genuine trade unions, apart from those that prop up the regime.
They renewed my hope that our profession has not sunk completely into a morass of infotainment journalism that serves to prop up corporate ownership and pop culture.
After a week and a half of catching up on sleep and drinking enough wine to prop up the economy, we begin thinking about pushing on to the island of Faial.
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The nation has paid back Qatar, which had deposited the money in Egypt to help it prop up Egyptian hard currency reserves.
The protesters marching through Lewisham, south-east London, believe the borough's well-run hospital is being sacrificed to prop up a failing trust nearby.
As Labour ministers look on glumly from their plush offices, hard-working frontline NHS staff are left to prop up our national treasure and keep it afloat.
The troubled firm had to close its UK life insurance fund to new business in 2002, and then last year it was forced to issue more shares to prop up its finances.
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