How To Use Point up In A Sentence
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In Italy, this gesture is simply called ‘le corna’ (the horns) and is apotropaic when the fingers lie horizontally or point down, and is an insult when the fingers point up.
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It seemed like quite an inauspicious, dark year at the time, but 1981 was, like 1945, a turning point up from a bottom in some sense.
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The attempt to bind those fields closer together leads Herbert at times into inconsistencies that point up the difficulty of finding comprehensible commensurability across disciplines.
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From that point upstream the sub-soil was composed of laminated greensand, that is, clay containing glauconite interspersed with discrete bands of fine-grained sand.
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Next, complete seven reps from that halfway point up to full flexion (joint closed).
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His report card can point up his talent for maths.
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Jamie wouldn't be so untactful as to point up an inexperience of which Duncan was more than aware already; he would, though, mean to point up something else.
Drums of Autumn
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An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
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Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto.
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But all the hot air served was to point up the hyper-inflation football elite's smug self-importance and, at the same time, demonstrate what a blimpish dirigible of bluster FIFA's chief Sepp Blatter truly is.
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The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
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It was brandished by the anti-war movement to point up the discrepancy between our purported war aims and the grisly realities of napalmed villages and dead Vietnamese civilians.
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The ship would point up better on the port tack.
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From his vantage point up in the thorny branches, Lena resembled a bird-watcher at a nudist ranch.
Three Stages of Amazement
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I was not convinced that in reality Chamberlain would have conceded to Churchill that signing the Munich Pact with Hitler in 1938 was an error—a point upon which Chamberlain remained stubborn in his diary and family correspondence despite the policy's ultimate failure.
True, or False?
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But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
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By 1700 the Virginia frontier had been pushed as far west as the fall line—the point upstream at which the rivers emptying into the Atlantic became unnavigable.
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They are decumbent, not prostrate, so that the young branch tips point upward.
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The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
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The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
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No, the ‘pot, meet kettle’ comment is intended to point up your blatant hypocrisy … not surprising that you fail to understand it, although whether your obtuseness is a result of malice of just plain stupidity is a subject for further debate.
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Also the four-pointed contraptions called chevaux de frise, which -- however you throw them -- will always stick a fatal point upwards, to impale the horse or man who cannot or will not look where he is going.
Over There War Scenes on the Western Front
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Then ease them out by pushing a pencil point up through the drainage hole in the base.
The Sun
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So maybe the French tennis playing public were playing for one ‘gros denier tournois ‘per point up to the maximum stake of sixty deniers for a game.’
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That's not much of a discriminator, because all scientists are under career pressure all the time, but it does point up the fact that this kind of misconduct is not motivated by simple monetary gain.
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His report card can point up his talent for maths.
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An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
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Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind.
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The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.