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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prop .
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Examples
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Chin propped on her elbow, tongue running over her lips, her raven hair a mane over her shoulders.
Lily Roberta Lawson 2010
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I sit, and stare, chin propped on my hand, and let the sound of cicadas wash over me.
A Loss For Words 2008
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Hunched on the sofa, legs crossed, her chin propped on prayerfully folded hands, she sits and dozes for hours.
By the Handful 2008
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Hunched on the sofa, legs crossed, her chin propped on prayerfully folded hands, she sits and dozes for hours.
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I sit, and stare, chin propped on my hand, and let the sound of cicadas wash over me.
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When, a while ago, we got ourselves all gussied up and broadbanded, we made the ISP-walla give us much more cable length than we needed, so we have the laptop now installed on our sleeping mat, and are typing this with chin propped up on pillows.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The girl, she said, was sitting on a log, with her chin propped in her hands.
Tish 1916
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He sat, his chin propped on his right hand, the other pressed against his bosom – his favorite attitude.
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He noticed his heavy sword propped against the wall with the rest of his belongings piled underneath.
More Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2010
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He noticed his heavy sword propped against the wall with the rest of his belongings piled underneath.
Archive 2010-02-01 Cromsblood 2010
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