Etymology
Origin of upturned
Example Sentences
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Upturned cups and plates, along with a teapot and coffee server and what’s left of a kerosene heater, give the impression that court personnel evacuated with some haste as Syrian troops drew near.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2017
Upturned faces blurred, vanished from sight down the long waves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes.
From Time Magazine Archive
At dead of night I seem to see Thy fair, pale features constantly Upturned in silent prayer for me, O'er moveless clasped hands, Isabel!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
I'm picturing alone a glad young face, Upturned to his mother's in playful grace; And the unsealed fountains of grief and joy That gushed at the birth of that beautiful boy.
From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker
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