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Example sentences for "upreared"

Lexicographically close words:
uppone; upraise; upraised; upraising; upreaching; uprearing; uprears; upright; uprightly; uprightness
  1. But Jan upreared in his Berserker rage; bleeding, frothing, cursing; five frozen years thawing into sudden hell.

  2. At a passage in the rocks, where the brutes upreared hindlegged and stretched their forelegs upward like cats to clear the wall, the way was piled with carcasses where they had toppled back.

  3. Then Hitchcock, for it was Hitchcock, upreared suddenly, shooting an unmittened hand out to the brute's shaggy throat.

  4. Above, a gigantic baobab tree towered out of the cleft and upreared its enormous cabbage-shaped crown high over the crest of the ridge.

  5. From across the broad gap, the eye followed the curve of the bottom-chords of the north cantilever away down into the abyss toward the far shore of the strait, where the lofty towers upreared upon their massive piers.

  6. Five or six miles to the south a long dentated crest upreared itself, plainly standing out against the fairly clear sky, and all along it drifted thousands of ice-packs.

  7. Thus, then, the bulk of the sphinx which upreared its mystic form upon this outer edge of the southern lands might be calculated by thousands of cubic yards.

  8. With ardent enthusiasm he sees in anticipation an army of Jesuits march to a spiritual attack on the citadel of Satan upreared in the Iroquois country.

  9. Captain Staunton stood at the tiller, intently watching the onward rush of the mountainous seas as they came swooping down with upreared threatening crests upon the launch.

  10. At midnight the wind was howling slaughter, and stout Old Jock, dismayed at last at the furious sea upreared against him, was at last forced to lay her to.

  11. Timely, the moon rose, herself invisible, but shedding a diffused light in the east, showing the high summits of the rocks, upreared above the blinding spindrift.

  12. In woe they ward the ditches deep, and on the towers on high 469 Stand sorrowing; for those heads upreared touch all their hearts anigh, Known overwell to their sad eyes mid the black flow of gore.

  13. Such was the Dares that upreared his head against the fight, And showed his shoulders' breadth and drave his fists to left and right, With arms cast forth, as heavy strokes he laid upon the air.

  14. They have not been upreared through a spirit of pride, nor through the pious fancy of some mighty man on his death-bed.

  15. Upreared by Francis the First, on his return from Spain, after the humiliating treaty of Madrid (1526), it is the monument of a pride that sought to dazzle itself in order to forget defeat.

  16. His face with a gashed cheek glared at the duke from under his upreared arm.

  17. Catching his upreared shield as he fell, he tore it from its supporting arm, just as two more horsemen blundered out of the gloom.

  18. With all his might among The white sea-horses that upreared So terrible and strong.

  19. Further, a few hundred thousand tons of ice had grounded upon the spit and upreared a glittering ridge.

  20. But cake pressed upon cake and shelved out of the water, out and up, sliding and grinding and climbing, and still more cakes from behind, till hillocks and mountains of ice upreared and crashed among the trees.

  21. Artistic cottages upreared In beauty, strength, and skill-- The happy, healthful homes endeared To lovers of Watch Hill!

  22. Or in what days lived the lord Who 'neath those thunder-forges upreared that battle's ward?

  23. And I called them friends and kindred, and upreared a battle-brand, And cried out in a tongue that I knew not, and red and wet was my hand.

  24. As Seyd also braced himself for the shock there came the scratch of a match, and Billy's red head flashed out in relief against the belly of the leading burro as it upreared in fright at the blaze.

  25. As they drew into the shadow of the Barranca wall the moonlight grew fainter, and, drifting later over the submerged jungle, they were hard put to avoid the treetops which upreared like huge mushrooms above the flood.

  26. Moor-birds were clamorous up above her head, and not a half-league off the black pile of Wynyates Kirk upreared itself, a temple in the wilderness.

  27. For time hath not rebuilt them, but upreared Barbaric dwellings on their shattered site, Which only make more mourned and more endeared The few last rays of their far-scattered light, And the crushed relics of their vanished might.

  28. Now their proud admiral himself plunged into the mêlée, laying about with a mighty sword worthy of Ajax at Troy, showing he was a prince of the Aryans indeed.

  29. Before you shall possess the land you must first possess the men.

  30. He reached the rocks with the pack close on his heels, and then seeing that he could not scale the rocks, the huge creature upreared himself against the boulders and prepared to battle for his life.

  31. At noon he paused, and seating himself under a tall "Rampick" that upreared its gaunt form blackly against the snow, he ate the lunch he had brought with him.

  32. Instead of one day, however, three passed during which Bull's huge bulk upreared alongside a hundred bars.

  33. Now, roofless, windowless, its blackened walls upreared in the midst of a wide, blurred smudge.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upreared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.