cupped

Example Sentences

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When I stand up to peek over the cliff, I see Titus and Denny with their hands cupped around their mouths.

From Literature

A hand cupped around an object —any object—could resemble a threat: a sandwich, a bag of Skittles, a BB gun, a stick of chalk, a palmful of air.

From Literature

It doesn't want to leave the safety of his cupped hands.

From BBC

But one question kept resurfacing, from multiple corners of the inbox, as if readers were whispering it behind cupped hands: What if we just aren’t a pie family?

From Salon

Penelope folded her arms and squinted, then made a telescope out of her cupped hands, but to no avail.

From Literature