How to Use up against a/the wall in a Sentence

up against a/the wall

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• My back’s up against the wall, so my legs don’t get taken out.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
• Lying with your feet up against the wall can help get things moving too.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2024
• Put your foot up against the wall, with heel on the ground, and your toes facing upward.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
• News reports showed dozens of people lined up against a wall near a taxiway.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
• To further calm your nervous system, lie down and put your legs up against a wall.
  — Melanie Mannarino, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
• In another shot, Kerr shows four pairs of white shoes lined up against a wall.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
• In another shot, Kerr showed four pairs of white shoes lined up against a wall.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• They’re meant to be set up against a wall, so only one side of the tree is full enough to be on display.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• Your butt should be up against the wall so that your body is at a 90-degree angle.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023
• There are no tables free, but a young woman directs us to a tiny inch of space right up against the wall.
  — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
• Conversely, it should never be placed beside the door or pushed up against a wall.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2019
• House members are packed back up against the wall with the small group of reporters allowed to attend.
  — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
• But there was another box, still flat and unpacked, propped up against a wall in the living room.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
• Vallejo then allegedly pushed him up against the wall and pressed his right forearm into his neck.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
• The same goes for furniture like a couch or TV console backed up against the wall.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
• Toddler girl wearing striped shorts and vest set propping her baby doll up against a wall to take a photo.
  — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
• In another room, guests lined up against a wall and the room started spinning as three creepy clowns jumped around the walls.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
• Employers have had their backs up against a wall for months as turnover woes continue to roil the workforce.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
• Several coaches pinned the fan up against a wall, subduing him.
  — Richard J. Marcus, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
• The video shows the inmate placing his hands on Pizzo's neck after he is pinned up against the wall.
  — NBC News, 8 Sep. 2020
• Reginald Jones, one imagines, never backed anyone up against a wall.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Abreu leapt up against the wall and batted the ball back into play, landing right in Rafaela’s waiting hands.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
• In one case, a few boys were walking home and throwing sticks when police swarmed them, drew guns and ordered the boys up against a wall.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 23 June 2020
• The officer instructs Anderson to get up against the wall, the video shows.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2023
• In the footage, five support braces lean up against the wall and one – the closest to the camera – gradually bends.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 June 2023
• At Perry's home, Perry tried to pull the girl's shirt up and pushed her up against a wall, the complaint said.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2021
• This movement is battle hardened because we were put up against the wall in 2021.
  — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025
• Her back is up against the wall, and losing or not having a little bit of support in a season is very upsetting.
  — EW.com, 12 June 2024
• We’re used to a couch pressed up against the wall, but a curvy couch deserves to be in the middle of a room, its curves contrasting with four square walls.
  — Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
• The four legs are made from oversized spindles, and the half moon shape tucks right up against a wall without leaving gaps or awkward spaces.
  — Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025