prop
verb (used with object)
to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed byup ).
had propped
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past perfectof prop.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Within five years, Operation Breakthrough, the ambitious, but ultimately costly, delay-ridden and politically unpopular federal initiative that had propped up the Kalamazoo factory and eight others like it across the country, ran out of money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
A Nikkei report had said on Monday that the BOJ could potentially allow 10-year Japanese government bond yields to rise above 1%, which had propped up the yen prior to the central bank's policy announcement.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023
Huyen says her husband made it back inside, and then he and her mother-in-law were able to make it down a ladder a neighbor had propped up onto their balcony.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Investigators initially said the teacher had propped the door open with a rock and did not remove it before Salvador Ramos, 18, entered the school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2022
While I talked, he didn’t say a thing, or ask any questions, just took notes on a yellow legal pad he had propped up on his leg.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
