cusped
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- uncusped adjective
Etymology
Origin of cusped
Example Sentences
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A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”
From Washington Post
They spoke to each other with hands cusped over mouths, foiling the lip-reading cameras zooming in on them.
From Washington Times
To that end, you won’t find turbans or cusped arches here.
From New York Times
There was no illusion to being there: rain cusped out of sky: the snow fell: it was a bitter time to see the place, a blastment.
From Project Gutenberg
The heads of the window lights, occasionally plain, were more frequently, even in the earlier examples, and invariably in the later ones, cusped or foliated.
From Project Gutenberg
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