How To Use Upraise In A Sentence

  • The chiropractor then tried to push the volunteer's upraised arm down to a horizontal position while the volunteer tried to resist.
  • It doesn't happen in Iraq, because there's no power, you don't have the technological infrastructure in Iraq but here suddenly we're seeing now really a serious upraise in the number of citizen journalists from both sides of the firing line filing blogs, first hand witness accounts of what it's like to be under fire. CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2006
  • The Song and the Chapter 17 story share this “I will upraise him.” The Muse in the Machine
  • Suddenly, with a single lowering of the President Chairman's upraised arms, the crowd was hushed.
  • Toss the ball under the upraised knee as follows: Holding the ball in the right hand, raise the right knee upward, bent at an angle, swing the right arm in circle outward, and toss the ball upward from under the knee; that is, from the inner side of the leg; catch with the hand that threw, palm _outward_. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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  • Al froze in place, one hand upraised, his eyes narrowing.
  • It shows a giant figure of a woman with an upraised hand drawn leftward.
  • I didn't say anything; the thunder of the storm roared too loudly in my head for me to upraise my small voice against it, or to offer my tiny sympathy to that man whose endurance had been measured against the elements, and whose standard must be for ever after raised to the summit of their standard. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
  • He hustled up to the wicket and clean bowled George who had his bat upraised as if in surrender. GOODBYE CURATE
  • stood with arms upraised
  • Through the broad arch that led into the gardens of the serail, the moonlight fell upon the tall figure and the upraised arm of the priest; Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
  • We turned to him, and I saw he stood with arms upraised above us.
  • I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forebore to upraise the sash. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • Her hands were upraised, as if trying to give someone something.
  • The dog was a reddish-grey color, with what seemed to be permanently upraised hackles along her neck and back.
  • It wasn't going to happen, though, so she dried her wet face against her upraised knees and lifted her head.
  • But the soreness in her arms made her mistime the stroke, hitting the thing's upraised sword instead of its neck.
  • World oil raised to US$ 92/barrel affected by fuel demand upraise from China (due to cold weather and disaster) near Chinese New Year and also decreasing rate of interest by FED. EVENT/INCIDENT 2008 ACCORDING TO DATE(NATIONAL&a
  • A collective cheer rose as she all but leapt into their upraised arms, ecstatically hugging them both.
  • He upraised his hands in prayer.
  • Half-kneeling, she pressed her fist into the ground, then defiantly upraised it.
  • In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
  • The whole thing cascades from an upraised hand at top: drops and stops like an express elevator.
  • There was a shadow on the shower curtain, a human-shape holding something in an upraised arm.
  • In Prayers for peace, a mother with upraised arms is a symbolic tree of life.
  • As for Joseph, he is pointing to himself, eyes upraised as if seeking reassurance.
  • A French stuntman using a motor-driven parachute to glide above New York harbour crashed into the Statue of Liberty's upraised torch.
  • Iris was already surveying him with upraised brow but he continued serenely and undismayed. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
  • He gave my upraised cup a scornful look, snorted, and left to talk to someone else.
  • Manon gave her brother a long look, eyebrows upraised, head lowered, which said eloquently, Oh, and what is going on here?
  • Lillak sprinted around the track with undisguised joy, arms upraised like a footballer, as the spectators went mad.
  • She then frowned and upraised an eye brow as she looked me up and down.
  • Consider the most famous image to come out of the Vietnam War: a child doused in napalm, naked, arms upraised, shrieking with pain, running down the road toward us.
  • The priest realized the crucial moment, felt his power tottering, opened his mouth in denunciation, but fled backward before the truculent advance, upraised fist, and flashing eyes, of Mackenzie. The Sun of the Wolf
  • White pups on white snow are seen as symbols of virginal nature, threatened by a hunter with upraised club.
  • Twelve people were standing in a circle, arms upraised.
  • She paused and let the edge of her hand rest on her upraised knee. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • Lee leaned against one side of the door, his upraised arm barely touching the door bell.
  • My student meet advisable 'Red Yeast Rice' tablets for cholesterin curb because my tests showed that the Zorcor I was attractive had upraised my liver enzymes to a chanceful level. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • They walked down an aisle between rows of theatre seats, toward an upraised dais at the far end of the chamber, where a pair of elegant thrones sat empty before velvet drapes of purple.
  • My father stood at his door and held in his upraised hand a pair of villainous boots, old and "clouted," fit for the Gibeonites, very different from the substantial English aids to the understanding which he had placed in all good faith outside his door the previous night. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
  • It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.
  • Further out, up to her waist, an elderly matron in a voluminous one-piece holds a walkman in upraised arms and belts out the chorus to an opera.
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  • Further out, up to her waist, an elderly matron in a voluminous one-piece holds a walkman in upraised arms and belts out the chorus to an opera.
  • His hands were upraised but when she blinked he was gone.
  • In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
  • Lift thy head, unhappy lady, from the ground; thy neck upraise; this is Troy no more, no longer am I queen in Ilium. The Trojan Women
  • In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
  • Though not conventionally beautiful, they possess other graces: soaring effortlessly on teetering wings upraised in a characteristic V, with scarcely a flap they outfly even eagles.
  • She ran her hand along the white metal, finally finding the slightly upraised area.
  • ( "Cantemus cuncti") well known in England by the translation, "The strain upraise of joy and praise. Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody
  • A soldier stood on the centre line of the road, his arm upraised.
  • He stood up suddenly, caught her upraised hand and with his other waved easily at the crowded floor. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • With hands upraised in blessing, the new Pope addresses his flock for the first time.
  • A dozen kids - children, babies - run bawling down the aisle, ducking under the upraised arms of as many waiters.
  • Thereupon the Wazir prostrated himself before the King and wished him permanence of prosperity, saying, Allah prolong thy days and thy rank upraise! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And even in their efforts to upraise the social revolution -- the great upheaval to which all A Girl Among the Anarchists

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