UPHOLD in a Sentence

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For UPHOLD, below is one of 20 sentences:
God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean.

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 Meanings and Examples of UPHOLD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
uphold
 v.  support; preserve; hold aloft; raise
Classic Sentence:
1  She knew that to uphold this dignity, they must ignore what she said, even if she stood in the next room and almost shouted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  My family may be poor but they have a position to uphold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  And they couldn't uphold it if it were known that gambling money and speculator's money and Carpetbag money was behind it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
4  Uncas, look for the marks of a shoe that is long enough to uphold six feet two of tottering human flesh.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
5  God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
6  This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, uphold two.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
7  Marius will not uphold me against you.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
8  Weathers was showing his biceps muscle to the company and boasting so much that the other two had called on Farrington to uphold the national honour.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
9  With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  It seemed very certain that something was upholding and uplifting him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Alexey Alexandrovitch, with a following of those who saw the danger of so revolutionary an attitude to official documents, persisted in upholding the statements obtained by the revising commission.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 6
12  Combeferre was upholding it weakly.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
13  To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have adopted the expedient of smiling at them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Example Sentence:
1  As a police officer you are expected to uphold the law whether you agree with it or not.
2  Every citizen should uphold the Constitution.
3  The IWC voted to uphold the ban on commercial whaling.
4  The government has promised to uphold the principles of democracy.
5  It's up to the government to uphold the rights of individual citizens.
6  Our policy has been to uphold the law.
7  We cannot project our values abroad unless we uphold them at home.