She 'sat bolt upright' [=she sat up straight] in bed when I entered the room.
There wasn't enough room to stand 'upright', so we had to bend over.
The 'uprights' of the structure were embedded in concrete.
(..) One day the Als are gonna look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons in the plains of Africa. An upright ape, living in dust, with crude language and tools. All set for extinction. "I am become Death, (..)2014 Ex Machina