Free of the machine, Granddad asked Dr. Heaton and Dr. Hall to place pillows behind his back to seat him semi-upright. ❋ David Eisenhower (2010)
Hold your baby in a semi-upright position and let him suck the medicine as you gently squeeze the dropper. ❋ Penny Simkin (2010)
It's currently pinned up to a chopstick because whoever rooted the cutting made the poor thing all cockeyed, but if the trunk hardens off even semi-upright it might make a pretty nice little tree. ❋ Netcurmudgeon (2007)
Today was Emer's first trip in the forward-facing buggy, sitting semi-upright. ❋ Ailbhe (2006)
Was stuck in a traffic jam and by the time I got to the scene of the accident, I saw a man seated semi-upright, his face and arms all red, eyes staring at the sky, mouth agape with some blood coming out of his mouth. ❋ Natinski (2006)
By this time, I found sitting still in a semi-upright position to be increasingly uncomfortable. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Roger helpfully dragged me semi-upright against piled pillows, and put his hand at the back of my head to prevent wobbling, holding a cup of water to my dry lips. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
Except that my instincts are telling me to remain in at least a semi-upright position. ❋ Baggyk (2005)
He replied in Ben-speak, which is to say that he shifted from a reclining position to a semi-upright posture while lazily waving a TV remote holding hand. ❋ Outfoxed (2002)
Kaylana lashed a final binding around his side and let him regain a semi-upright position. ❋ Forward, Eve (1995)
A dear old friend had told her "she must 'mother' her baby at the nursing time," and so she had held the child in a semi-upright position as she endeavored to hold the bottle as near her own breast as was possible. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)
In the other part stood a bureau heaped with promiscuous toilette articles, and a huge, brass-knobbed bed with a spread of lace over its great, semi-upright pillows. ❋ Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 (1922)
The prone body became semi-upright, leaned on an elbow. ❋ James Hay (1908)
When we reach the semi-upright ape, we have to do with a form capable of turning the body and observing the whole surrounding circle of objects more quickly and readily than any quadruped. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
Especially once we spy some swimmers floating about on their backs or in a semi-upright position (as if they were sitting on an invisible chair of salt). ❋ Unknown (2010)
- Fitness bikes are most like road bikes, with a small seat and narrow tires, but they're more comfortable because you sit semi-upright. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When tobacco-exposed babies were tilted semi-upright at one week, the rise in blood pressure was double that of controls, but at one year it had fallen dramatically and was only half that of age-matched controls. ❋ Unknown (2010)
