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Lotto is propped up by the notion that “Hey, you never know” though of course you do know—you know that you will not win.

The police state system that propped up dictators from Algiers to Islamabad for decades was unsustainable.

In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.

Mitchum himself is propped up against a wall, talking to two journalists.

His heavily bandaged right leg is propped up on a stool in his apartment and his crutches lean on fridge.

Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple.

He had a flashlight gun in his right hand, and a photographer's tripod was propped upright between his knees.

Black Hood propped one foot on a laboratory stool, rested an elbow on his knee.

She went up to bed early, leaving him seated in moody thought, his elbows propped on the worn oilcloth of the supper table.

Bud propped the handle of the frying pan high with a forked stick, and stood up.