16 examples of shore up in sentences

Then the thought came, that I had better seize this chance to shore up the door, again.

Just follow the shore up from Pike's Landing; you'll see a khaki colored tent in among the trees.

They had saved more than these; but had made use of the smaller spars to shore up the superstructure, sawing them into lengths for that purpose.

Thus we had her sparred, all but a bowsprit and jibboom; yet this we managed by making a stumpy, spike bowsprit from one of the smaller spars which they had used to shore up the superstructure, and because we feared that it lacked strength to bear the strain of our fore and aft stays, we took down two hawsers from the fore, passing them in through the hawse-holes and setting them up there.

Now, if I hadn't been a scout I would have gone home and played tennis or followed the shore up to the club landing and waited for the troop to come and go to work on the houseboat.

Certainly if the hunt was only kept up in automobiles, that required fairly decent roads to allow of their getting along, there was not much chance of the authorities ever discovering the concealed hobo thieves; for they could not get within a mile of the shore up there at Norton's Point by such methods.

We gathered a nosegay of the loveliest flowers, under a burning sun, within ten days of Christmas; and then wandered off the shore up a little path in the red lava, toward a farm where we expected to see fresh curiosities, and not in vain.

There is a poor, forlorn wretch with his rags fluttering about him like a beggargive him a pennyhe must be in distresslook at his shattered face and dilapidated form; shored up upon crutches, tottering on the brink of the sewersshores

Also stacks of timber for shoring up mines which sappers would dig beneath the enemy trenches.

The ship was moored in a very uncomfortable place,near some that were discharging coal,with the stern shored up so that the screw of the steamer might be repaired.

[Illustration: Stephen Marcel342] Marcel and his partisans took advantage of his absence to shore up their tottering supremacy.

They must shore up its treacherous walls, take out its dead materials, carve new heads for the saints in the niches of the doors, build up the edifice anew, following faithfully as may be the old lines, and striving for the old spirit.

throughout, is lofty and spacious, but the general effect is spoilt by the timber supports which are found necessary to shore up the chancel arch.

This done, some set out to shore up the ceilings of the basement with mighty battens of wood, and to convert that region into a nest of cunningly devised bedrooms.

Present efforts to shore up the insolvent U.S.A. economy and the resulting opposition of America's leading European trading partners is not reassuring.

Frequently the increase of the emoluments of bureaucrats, especially at the higher levels of authority and responsibility, creates sinecures which are filled by parasites or by individuals who are engaged in shoring up the bureaucracy rather than rendering a public service.

16 examples of  shore up  in sentences