How To Use Prig In A Sentence

A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture.
A sprig of holly in our tum. Times, Sunday Times
He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Having to stand upright, dip to serve drinks and perch on the edge of chairs all night is clearly a workout in itself. The Sun

Matthew grabbed her arm, but she remained upright without his support.
Cutting sprigs of holly in spring will provide all the pruning they need. The Sun
First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
The most common arch form is constructed of steel uprights supported in concrete-filled oil drums, with a trellised head spanning the road.
It's only four dudes, but together they play drums, guitar, keys, upright bass, trumpet, flugel horn and assorted "electronics. The Drift - Invisible (Music (For Robots))
Just as the girl shut the door Yuki pulled herself upright and staggered to the bed.
Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.
This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.
Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens.
Instead of the classic English handshake at the end of matches, players opted instead for the ‘bro, you wuz good out there’ upright handclasp more usually seen on the streets of Harlem.
John was a much loved and respected member of the community, known for his upright and honest nature.
Please note you cannot stand upright in the room. The Sun
Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score. The Fast and the Serious
I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
Garnish the guacamole with chilli powder or coriander sprigs, then serve in the centre of a plate of tortilla chips.
They had the same mixture of comfortable sofas and chairs and slightly more serious upright chairs and tables.
I set her upright, she smoothed her jacket and, not looking to me for even a moment, took her leave of the carriage with the vaguest suggestion of a smile on her face.
To reduce the height of a fast growing rambling rose on an upright trellis, try looping and tying the flowering canes as shown.
A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle. Country diary: New Forest
Before I was fully upright, a powerful surge of pain engulfed my body.
Garnish with a fresh mint sprig and a straw cut short enough so that you almost bury your nose in the mint as you sip.
She actually envied the simplicity of Lucy Morris, for whom she delighted to find evil names, calling her demure, a prig, a sly puss, and so on. The Eustace Diamonds
I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current.
Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband. Sabbath in Puritan New England
What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind. Death carries a camcorder
I did wonder if this vessel ever uprighted itself on the higher reaches of the tide, listening as I did to the first gurglings in the reed-bound mud as the sea once again started to push against the hull of an active fishing boat, (short-wheel based Landrover in attendance). Tidal Reaches 2
Instead of stopping at the top as you normally would on a squat, perform an upright row by pulling the dumbbells up to your collarbones as you pronate your hands - then push off the balls of your feet as the weights reach their maximum height.
At each corner of the square slab stood four upright stelae.
‘But I'm 18, that's how old I feel,’ he says - and there is, to be sure, a sprightliness about him still.
Australopithecus postcranial skeletons demonstrate that these forms were upright bipeds.
Even if linked to a typically American automatic gearbox of only four speeds, it has sprightly performance.
An empty bad cannot stand upright.
Our big opportunity had been blown by a bunch of tight-lipped, upright folks who wanted to mind their own business.
But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age?
Make sure the container remains in an upright position.
Midway through the second half a kick which might have won the game was cruelly whipped to the left of the upright, having spent most of its trajectory arrowing right between them.
He sat bolt upright, hands folded in front of him.
Every week I find myself walking into a room without any windows and with only bare white walls and cold, hard, upright chairs.
Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
He missed in the twelfth and fourteenth minutes, although his second effort did hit the upright, and fluffed his dropped goal attempt early in the second half. Times, Sunday Times
The upright of the cross was- the shiny macadam road on which I was walking, the cross-piece a lane running about thirty yards each way. TESTIMONIES
I sucked in a breath and bolted upright, scooting back in my bed till my back hit the headboard and I couldn't go any further.
She behaved as any upright citizen would have under the circumstances.
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
he sat bolt upright
The plant grows upright with a slight spreading habit.
Thirty there were at least of them, not counting other gods that were neither black nor white, but that still, two-legged, upright and garmented, were beyond all peradventure gods. CHAPTER XX
None of the youngsters made long-winded speeches, but they said it all through sprightly dances that were a celebration of life and an exhibition of talent.
Garnish with some fresh thyme sprigs and serve straight away. Times, Sunday Times
Supine and upright abdominal radiographs with stepladder pattern of air-fluid levels and no colonic gas are suggestive of obstruction.
Mesh netting of playpens should always be in the upright position.
Red: Represent brave , justice, power , and royalty , mostly use to courage and uprightness people.
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When the gravy has been reduced to the right consistency, add a handful of rosemary sprigs and bubble for a few more minutes. Times, Sunday Times
And he has told us, too, and always has he told us, to be clean and strong and to walk upright and manlike. These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London
My lamb was sitting on a bed of potatoes and a rich gravy infused with the flavour of several sprigs of rosemary.
Spoon over your blueberry jam, cover with your elderflower cordial, and top with a sprig of mint.
Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright. Times, Sunday Times
After the upright and then the crossbar denied them a goal, he clicked into top gear.
The distribution of mineral parageneses and illite crystallinity across one of the upright folds suggests that strain gradients favoured the metamorphic reaction progress from the hinge (low strain) towards the limbs (high strain).
The man, whose name is evocative of fear and hatred in films, stands upright without even a stoop to suggest his 71 years.
Maybe there are, but hey, I'm not in their world and such prigginess as they and theirs soon won't be in our world -- their stalk is too spindly. Oil and water (Jack Bog's Blog)
Visual inspection of the quality of the metal pattern was carried out using a 20x lens on an upright light microscope.
There is simple rural life; old men who comb their thinning hair and live with an upright pride despite being beset by trials and religion. Times, Sunday Times
And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
When we parted she was upright, energised, smiling and laughing.
Wil-Dog, who used to play in Macy Gray's band, plays electric bass, upright bass, and guitar.
In four months, the sprigs they plant will have branches three to four feet long.
This little sally may be considered as a specimen of that playful sprightliness which is so much the characteristic of the french female. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
His regular spot was left empty, the grass he would normally flatten sitting upright and proud.
Wearing leather gloves for protection, cut sprigs of greenery and bunch them up.
The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
A pretty good defence mechanism is to be open - but also, I think, without being too priggish and sanctimonious, it's a kind of responsibility if you're in public life.
These upright stones are the vestiges of some ancient religion.
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She stood upright, and her sorb suddenly blazed with fire. A Voyage to Arcturus
The "jamb" is the upright or side member; the "lintel" is the cross member of the doorway. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
It was a huge old upright, but, to my eyes, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Determined not to lose the 'poke,' which had a good many 'quids' in it, I watched the 'copper,' and prigged it out of his pocket again. Six Years in the Prisons of England
A trap-door it was, of huge dimensions, almost exactly covered by the self-colored square; but at each side a tongue of linoleum had been left loose for lifting it; and the lamp had scarcely been replaced upon the counter when the bulk of the floor leaned upright in one piece against the opposite wall. Stingaree
Stabler had three chances to put West Hartlepool ahead with penalty kicks but failed, though one struck an upright.
Indeed it does, and you don't have to be an anarchist to smile wickedly as Coward's characters poke bruising fun at all the censorious prigs, both moral and political, who talk a better game than they play. When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
At the entrance to the gallery an upright, abstracted figure, smoothly curved, sat atop a heavy-duty steel truck spring.
Encourage the stem that will form the new plant to grow straight by gently bending it into an upright position and attaching it to a cane.
The practical steering lock complements the upright riding position and wide handlebars. The Sun
Latin scribes held their stiff-nibbed reed pens almost directly upright and at right angles to the writing surface, so that a down stroke from left to right and slanted at an angle of about forty-five degrees would bring the nib across the surface broadwise, resulting in the widest line possible to the pen. Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples
It is He who brings gardens into being: creepers and upright trees, the palm and all manner of crops, olives, and pomegranates alike and different.
Another good association could bethe white umbel Seseli libanotus with the purple-tinted foliage of theupright Thalictrum 'Elin'. Gardens: Planting in drifts
The only problem is that a spell checker had rendered Prif Swyddog Cyllid as 'prig seadog cylix'. Archive 2006-12-01
Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.
Moiseyev has added a few new dances, at least new to New York, including a hilarious sailor's dance called A Day on Board a Ship, as well as adaptations from Venezuela and Argentina and a sprightly Spanish jota.
Make sure safety bars are inserted into the uprights.
For the upright, I used two mics: one cardioid large-diaphragm near the floor, pointing up at the bridge, and the xt up closer to the players' right hand to capture more of the string noise and attack.
Previously, zoysia has been only widely available as sod, sprigs or strips.
Are there any road bikes that have an upright riding position but will not be frowned on by more serious cyclists? Times, Sunday Times
Serve garnished with the sprigs of parsley. The Sun
‘Come on, let's get back to the inn,’ Chenok stood up with a sprightliness that you wouldn't find in a dying man.
By means of the newel-post I drew myself upright and listened. CHAPTER XLIX
The unstable surface triggers the muscles surrounding the spine and pelvis, helping the participant to maintain an upright position, improving gait and posture. The Sun
Portrait an upright image or page where the height is greater than the width.
To the left there was a wheel of fortune and some pool tables and in the far corner stood an upright piano.
It clicks into place in an upright position when needed.
I still have some original sketches: in one he's very upright and ogreish, in another he's on all fours and looks like a wild boar. How we made: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler on The Gruffalo
Still in 1910, 139,000 teachers were teaching Americans how to play on parlor pianos, uprights, baby grands and grands.
I suddenly feel a new sprightliness, quite unexpec ... Jean's Knitting
Peter Manso: erm, I was using "sprightly" as a compliment - as in, "energetic" etc. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
I'm trying to turn this man into an upright citizen. Times, Sunday Times
Sharpe grabbed a handful of his mare's mane to haul himself back upright.
The ‘smart’ fence uses breakable metal pins inserted between the top pole and the uprights supporting it.
“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf. Flashman on the March
The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.
So I took my time finishing the job, heaved myself upright and turned to face the source of the muttering.
Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing. Where Are You, Angry Left?
Stand the pears upright in a roasting dish. Times, Sunday Times
Just as he has done so many times before, Deacon struck the kick sweetly, the ball sailing directly between the uprights to crown one of the most memorable comebacks in Super League history.
Instead, it will be placed in an upright position next to the speaker.
QI want to replace my old racing bike with one that has a more upright riding position. Times, Sunday Times
Claim 4 relates to an upright appliance on wheels having a cleaning head with a rotatable brush at the dirty air inlet.
Erik woke slowly, but when he realized he hadn't heard anything about Kallie, he bolted upright, causing him to get a little lightheaded.
A menhir is a sort of northern European variety of the stela, an ancient upright stone or pillar serving as a monument, and accepted by the credulous as being generally mystical.
Drizzle with lemon juice and garnish with Thai basil, mache and dill sprigs.
Mom stands upright, her skis over her shoulder, a pair of climbing skins wrapped jauntily about her waist.
The first is the “Impungu” (or pongo?), which walks upright, and is from seven to nine feet high. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Don't mind other's idle gossip! Like an upright tower, never tile to one side in the storm wind.
Season inside the cavity and fill with the herb sprigs. Times, Sunday Times
It is evergreen or semievergreen, with mid-green leaves and an upright growth habit, reaching up to 2m tall. The Sun
After the impact the passenger train was derailed, but remained upright until it travelled over a set of points which deflected it into the path of the freight train travelling in the opposite direction.
If you can't cook asparagus immediately, the National Farmers' Union says you can place the stems upright in a container with a little water to cover the ends and store in the fridge.
The two Greens Senators wore a sprig of wattle over a postcard picture of the two Australian citizens interned in Guantanamo Bay.
With an effort, she pulled herself upright, weaving through the crowd.
Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
The spaces between the posts are filled in with redwood patterned inserts or detailed uprights that can alternate in size for extra design interest.
It keeps very well if stood upright in a jug containing a little water, and refrigerated.
I find religious or morally upright people to be happy, hardworking individuals who know what is good in a country unlike those debauchees who have nothing to do for one society other than get drunk and have orgies.
It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance. Times, Sunday Times
Some bareback riders ride relatively upright, while others lie back along the horse's back.
A dolmen was a single chambered tomb formed by laying one long stone over several other stones set upright in the ground. Early European History
Sitting almost upright on one of its floats, only the severe damage to the front end, where its 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine was partially torn away on impact, betrays the violence that saw this aircraft downed.
In the latter case the back strip may have a short barefaced blind tenon which is mortised into the upright, Fig. 278. Handwork in Wood
His face flushed scarlet and he sat bolt upright. The Secret Garden
In other words, a long-ago ancestor species that spent its time in the trees moved to the ground and began walking upright.
The only flaw is the stowable foot that stands the dock upright, which doesn't lock into place. Gizmodo
Thus when an arch is built to bear against an upright wall, a buttress or other counterfort is applied in a direction opposed to the pressure of the arch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots.
Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.
Uprights: The vertical poles which hold the bar in high jump and pole vault in place.
In an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
We need upright people in the council because there is important work to do.
Put the natural yoghurt into a small blender with the garlic, ginger, salt, oil, leaves from three of the coriander sprigs and the gram flour.
The bisphosphonate tablet should be swallowed with water, with the patient standing or sitting bolt upright. Times, Sunday Times
The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.
An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard. In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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Chris Travers: A pollard is a “beheaded” tree (“pollard” meaning “beheaded”), i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
Keep your body upright and bend your front leg until your thigh is parallel to the floor. The Sun
On top of this was a solid brick monument with an upright stone.
The colossal white columns, which lean forward 20 centimeters, will be returned to their upright position.
Team officials had to haul him back upright to carry on playing. The Sun
In the early spring, their upright tufts of light green foliage provide a background for daffodils and tulips. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Fires have burnt most of the uprights to charred stumps but the thick wooden corner posts are still intact.
Naida suddenly jerked her doll upright and the long-lashed blue eyes of the wax bride opened with a snapping sound, and stared, meltingly, coquettishly, at the sister.
He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters
Once the producers felt we had seen enough of that, the camera seemlessly segued into another grassy scene: one with prehistoric, upright, hairy Homo habilis digging holes and groping for food, circa two million years ago.
He managed to pull himself upright.
After that they took the body and laid it on the sledge and drove to Bergthorsknoll, and drew it into the sheepcote, and made him sit upright against the wall. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
Alvin placed the tray squarely on the sideboard and turned three glasses upright.
The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia.
The man in the brace position struggled back into an upright posture. Times, Sunday Times
Being of upright character is not at all a prerequisite for being a pop star.
But he also had hit the left upright and right upright on a couple of other tries.
On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
The mitre and sanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Dr. Pangloss's devils had both tails and claws, and his flames were upright. Candide
The stylized sprigs on the drawer fronts and the insides of the doors could have been copied from Indian manuscript illuminations or from Indian textiles.
_Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
Specimen half-standard fruit trees can be grown as features in the lawn or borders, and mini upright cordons can be grown individually, in small plantations in the borders or in pots for the patio.
His "Levities" are by their title exempted from the severities of criticism, yet it may be remarked in a few words that his humour is sometimes gross, and seldom sprightly. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
She looked athletic, with her upright figure and straight back. Times, Sunday Times
Please return your seat to an upright position and fasten your belt.
He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
You need to put a wedge of lemon and a sprig of parsley on each plate.
When I was finally upright, I was almost trembling with pain, but I had only come close to yelping once.
Oh, and it turns out the little dynamo is also a Beckham-like soccer player, something Berg discovered quite by accident when she casually kicked a soccer ball in Spright's direction and the dog, using chest, head and any other useful body part, executed an impressive block and slammed it forward. Pet Talk: Mighty three-legged mutt is my kind of mayor
The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of which are carried by every boat; and which, when additional game is at hand, are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both to mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession, should the boats of any other ship draw near. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Stuff the peppers with the mince mixture and stand them upright in a pot on the stove with a little water at the bottom.
It is a sort of a big board game type contraption, free standing, and the size of an upright fridge.
The Alcione C, a 54m Italian supply ship torpedoed by the Allies in 1943, stands upright on a 34m seabed.
Pop a few mini sprigs of rosemary and a garlic slivers in middle of cheese, with a drizzle of olive oil. The Sun
He could have added to his tally soon afterwards, but his volley swerved past the upright. Times, Sunday Times
Drain and serve with parsley sprigs as garnish. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples.
Yesterday, the 33-year-old looked decidedly sprightly for his age. Times, Sunday Times
QI am looking for a light bike with an upright riding position. Times, Sunday Times
Within a matter of seconds, he was snoring as if he were not upright in a car, but lying comfortably in his own bed.
She set a place for each of them, then went to the large, upright freezer and pulled out three icy mugs.

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