shooting

Example Sentences

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It has a "sun-blistered green bench and tables ... shapely white windows" and a "row of upshooting hollyhock plants".

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2010

In this world of noxious and repulsive weeds, what sudden startling upshooting of what beautiful flowers!

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

There glittered the white bodies and slant wings of gulls, dipping, upshooting and whirling.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

As if the reproach were just the spur his courage and his intelligence had needed, his face suddenly glowed with the upshooting fire of an inspiration.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

Next morning Erskine rode forth along a 152 sandy road, amidst the singing of birds and through a forest of tiny upshooting leaves, for Red Oaks on the James.

From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by Fox, John