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noun

prop

CEFR C1

a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling

In a sentence

Six example sentences with prop, each labelled with its topic.

  • Timber props held the vault while masons cut out the failing pier, and nobody removed them for eleven months.

    Architecture

  • A single steel prop under the sagging stairway held the whole set upright while the camera crew worked below.

    Movies

  • A folded matchbook worked as a prop under the wobbling vase, steadying it long enough to finish the shot.

    Photography

  • Arborists set a timber prop beneath the oak's longest limb so its weight would not tear the branch away.

    Environment

  • Miners wedged a wooden prop under the roof every few feet, and a creak from the timber was the signal to run.

    History

  • Guides point out the steel prop bracing the leaning bell tower, installed after the tilt increased during the 1990s.

    Travel

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