upturned
Example Sentences
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Upturned cups and plates, along with a teapot and coffee server and what’s left of a kerosene heater, give the impression that court personnel evacuated with some haste as Syrian troops drew near.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2017
Upturned faces blurred, vanished from sight down the long waves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took my face between his hands and said— His face all dark between me and the stars— "What's love, Celeste, but this dear face of truth Upturned to heaven."
From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred
But, coasting that lone island round, Among the slippery kelp I found A little oval glass that lay Upturned and flashing in the ray Of the down-looking sun.
From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
