sweep upward

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Rhapsodic swaths of wind and brass sweep upward in inverted cascades, and the clang of raw, unturned percussion represents the noisy soundscape of a building site.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014

His eyes sweep upward from stalls to gallery, pausing for a moment at the Royal Box.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across the water rises Sinopah Mountain, while to the north sweep upward the gray-green slopes of Rising Wolf to terminate in purple-red argillites and snow banks.

From Glacier National Park [Montana] by Interior, United States Dept. of the

Or you will come upon mountains which sweep upward out of burning death into sumptuous life.

From The Golden Fleece, a romance by Hawthorne, Julian

The beam of a searchlight is used just as a flag is used, to sweep upward for "perpendicular," downward for "front," and to right and to left.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)