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Example sentences for "upflung"

Lexicographically close words:
upcoming; update; updated; updating; upended; upgathered; upgrade; upgraded; upgrading; upgrowth
  1. Her upflung fist, with a blow like a man's, caught Anita's thigh and knocked her toward the ceiling.

  2. The lights from them had reached the intensity of an upflung beam, and the projectors were swinging to focus the beam inward.

  3. At length a low range of foothills, upflung before them, began to take shape out of the darkness with their near approach.

  4. He bent down, and the first thing his gaze encountered was an upflung hand grasping a revolver, and another hand gripped about the wrist of the first and preventing use of the weapon.

  5. Byron Hastings greeted Clinch with upflung gun: "Me and Jim heard a shot away out on Drowned Valley," he announced.

  6. A sombre smoky sunset, as if this Death Valley was the gateway of hell, and its sinister shades were upflung from fire.

  7. But there was something splendidly thrilling in our conquest of that narrow upflung edge of mountain.

  8. One by one they drew my gaze to the wall of upflung rock.

  9. I was drawn by the beauty and grandeur of that scene; and then I was transfixed, almost by fear, by the realization that I dared to venture down into this wild and upflung fastness.

  10. It lay now on the crater floor with its nose bashed into an upflung spire of rock.

  11. He had seen his son, a speck in the dawnlight, invisible to our eyes, sailing from peak to upflung peak.

  12. He was drawn by the beauty and the grandeur of that scene and transfixed by the realization that he had dared to venture to find a way through this vast, wild, and upflung fastness.

  13. One by one they drew his gaze to the wall of upflung rock.

  14. Now even as Barnabas uttered the words she advanced upon him with upflung head and eyes aflame with sudden passionate scorn.

  15. Barnabas started guiltily, and turning with upflung head, perceived a very small man perched on an adjacent milestone, with a very large pack at his feet, a very large hunk of bread and cheese in his hand, and with a book open upon his knee.

  16. And so, with a quick upflung glance at the dismal house, he turned, waved his hand, and sped away on noiseless feet, and so was gone.

  17. On either side was an upflung spray of tall receding towers, dazzling in the sunshine.

  18. Just before he lowered his upflung face to smash his fist into another face, something wet blobbed on his forehead.

  19. She heard the high, vibrant voice, saw the fair hair on the upflung head, the rapt look in the blue eyes with their quick-expanding pupils.

  20. The moonlight flickered on the blade in his upflung hand as, with a strangled hoarse cry he reeled backward over the bluff.

  21. My upflung voice mingled with Snap's agony of protest.

  22. He was frankly curious, his gaze humorous, but traveling over details, his head upflung and the scenting movement to his nostrils.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upflung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    elevated; erect; exalted; high; lofty; raised; rampant; stilted; sublime; upcast; uplifted; upraised; upright