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• The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.From the entry vote
• The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.From the entry proverbial
• Last year, a US appeals court upheld the convictions of Holmes and Theranos President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.2026 January 21, Clare Duffy, Hadas Gold, “Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to let her out of prison early”, in CNN Business, archived from the…. From the entry restitution
• Appeals courts, including the 5th Circuit, have in the past upheld the federal ban in question.2025 January 30, Tierney Sneed, “Federal law banning handgun sales 18- to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional, appeals court rules”, in CNN…. From the entry prohibition
• Jefferson's hyperracial culture was not just upheld by students making sly comments in the shadows.2017, Shayla Reese Griffin, Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School, Harvard Education Press, →ISBN. From the entry hyperracial
• Thus the Gita champions the theory of varnasramadbarma as upholding the sociocosmic order.2013, Joseph Kitagawa, The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture, →ISBN. From the entry sociocosmic
• Alicia Silverstone is upholding the time-honoured tradition of saddling celebrity kids with batpoop crazy names.2011 May 9, Jen McDonnell, “Scandal Sheet: Rachel McAdams’ ring sparks engagement rumours”, in The National Post. From the entry batpoop
• Should the decision of Judge Kaplan be upheld and a subpoena be served for Mr.2010 May 7, Dave Itzkoff, quoting Michael Moore, “Michael Moore Says Judge's Ruling Could Have ‘Chilling Effect’ on Documentaries”, in New…. From the entry chilling effect
• The sentence was upheld on Aug. 2 by the Weidu People's District Court in Xuchang.2010 September 20, Qiao Long, Luisetta Mudie, “Christians Appeal Labor-Camp Term”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived…. From the entry Weidu
• How could any president spit on their sacrifice and uphold the party cohesion to survive?2009, Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry walk the plank
• Why else could he think the military has to uphold an oath that he doesn't?2006 December 26, humbubba, “Hey, Bush, who's our enemy today?”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022. From the entry witchism
• William Jennings Bryan won the case and the antievolution statute was upheld.2004, James Jurinski, Religion on Trial, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry antievolution
• Bean Toomey was upholding the law when you were still just a twinkle in your daddy's eye.1994, Suzanne Elizabeth, Kiley's Storm, page 144. From the entry twinkle in one's daddy's eye
• Broadbent's smoky, sultry originals "The Long Goodbye" and "Lady In The Lake" uphold the album's Chandlerish spirit.1992 August 15, Billboard, volume 104, number 33, page 57. From the entry Chandlerish
• By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9. From the entry hangar
• What if it did actually uphold certain standards?2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The…. From the entry advertainment
• It flourished in a world order that is decomposing. (LKY's all-too-prescient speech to Congress urged America to uphold free trade).2024 May 18, Janan Ganesh, “What can and can’t be learnt from Singapore”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry LKY
• Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui. From the entry reign
• We can be kind but we should uphold moral values.2020 January 28, “My Understanding Of What It Means to Be Compassionate”, in Minghui.org, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023. From the entry compassion
• Acton upholds randomless drug testing for student athletes.2012, John R. Vile, David Hudson, Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment - Volume 1 - Page lxv. From the entry randomless
• Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 37n. From the entry traducianism
• Her damp hair was strewn like a cat-o'-nine-tails across her laughing face, her coral-tipped breasts jigglingly upheld by the water.1999, Steve Stern, The wedding jester. From the entry jigglingly
• Through panentheistic sensibility, our ancestors conceived a Covenant between Creator and Creation that humankind is enjoined, spiritually and ethically, to uphold.1996, Michael W. Fox, The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation, page 266. From the entry panentheistic
• Lord Justice Roskill delivered the decision of the three justices, upholding the fines against the paper and editor Lemon.1978 April 15, “London's Gay News Loses Blasphemy Appeal”, in Gay Community News, page 3. From the entry hang over someone's head
• Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry gaucho
• The Homer Simpsons and Peter Griffins continue to uphold the false narrative that fathers are inept at supporting their spouse and nurturing their children.2024, Lorin Shahinian, “From Flipping Burgers to Flipping Fatherhood”, in The Animated Dad: Essays on Father Figures in Cartoon Television. From the entry Peter Griffin
• Otherwise known as 'subcreation' or 'conworlding' (constructed worlds), the success of these fabrications relies on their consistent upholding of self-instigated internal rules and logic systems.2021 June, Mark Morris, Mike Aling, Worldmodelling: Architectural Models in the 21st Century, Wiley, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry conworlding
• I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s…. From the entry Vauseman
• And though I warned of it, I never really thought that what I wrote would become vital in the vain hope of upholding civil liberty.2016, Ed Spencer, “Joined-up thought”, in The People’s Republic of Absurdia or Blighty: The State We’re In, London; Suffield, Norfolk…. From the entry draconianism
• Antimiscegenation laws were directed primarily at people of color and at low-status, disreputable whites, the poor white trash who refused to uphold the color line.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 82. From the entry disreputable
• Since Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change.2002, Hammed Shahidian, Women in Iran: Emerging voices in the women's movement, page 56. From the entry tamkin
• Nevertheless, some still remember how to speak Gola, occasionally uphold their Gola origins, and seem to reflect them in the orientation of certain social values.1994, Melissa Leach, Rainforest relations: gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone, page 49. From the entry gola
• RULINGS of unfair dismissal won by 18 school-dinner ladies who refused to take a pay cut were upheld by the Court of Appeal today.1984 November 1, “Dinner ladies win pay cut battle”, in The Standard, page 9. From the entry school-dinner lady
• Arbitrator John Day Larkin upholds the discharge of a female employee who had a fight with a union stewardess on a company parking lot.1968, Daily Labor Report, page 4. From the entry stewardess
• But such is the frailty of human reason and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld.1957, Emil Aarestrup, Christian Frederik Petersen, Morten Borup, Emil Aarestrups breve til Christian Petersen, Gyldendal, page 220. From the entry ænigma
• The main concern of the powers that be is that the people should continue to believe in and uphold the existing system.1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 10, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC. From the entry powers that be
• While many are brief, some continue to uphold the standards of professional filmmaking with which the railway has become synonymous, over a period of over a century.2025 December 24, Tim Dunn, “Railways and film: the perfect match”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 55. From the entry filmmaking

Meaning of uphold

1. verb To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
2. verb To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling.
3. verb To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned).

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Questions about uphold in a sentence

How do you use uphold in a sentence?

Uphold is used as a verb. For example: “The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.”

What is a short sentence with uphold?

“Acton upholds randomless drug testing for student athletes.”

What does uphold mean?

Uphold means to hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.