1.   Cargo doors were flung wide, and a few windows propped open in an almost futile attempt to beat the oppressive south Florida heat.

2.   Every morning, the main clubhouse is unlocked, the doors propped open.

3.   The hood, surprisingly heavy, must be lifted manually and propped open with a steel rod.

4.   The sounds of accordions and horns common to Mexican music drift through windows propped open to ward off the heat in summer.

5.   A cardiac catherization at the hospital Monday afternoon found a renarrowing of an artery that had been propped open by a wire mesh stent last November.

6.   Doctors had implanted a stent, a little metal scaffolding, to prop open an almost completely blocked coronary artery.