upcast
Example Sentences
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There she is with her upcast eyes, unknowable sorrow and perfect sympathy.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
The ventilation circuit between the downcast and upcast shafts must be already in some sort re-established.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
V�in�m�inen, old and steadfast, In the surf beheld them floating, 290 Through the breakers shoreward driving, Then on shore upcast by billows, Saw the fragments of the Sampo, Splinters of the pictured cover.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias
Proud Mette and her nine witches hoar, They hurried screaming to the shore. p. 19She waked on the sea a tempest blast, The sand from the bottom the waves upcast.
From Finnish Arts or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, a Ballad by Borrow, George Henry
Thus, a miner working along the coal-seam S, from a to b, would describe the fault, f, as an upcast, since he would have to mine to a higher level to catch his coal again.
From Geology by Geikie, James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
