uptilt
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of uptilt
Example Sentences
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What is changed is Olive’s situation at the very close: These stringently non-Hollywood filmmakers have suggested a cheerful, almost-Hollywood uptilt for her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
The photographer has crouched at ground level to take the shot so that she looms larger than life in the frame, the defiant uptilt of her chin emphasised.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2018
Miss Whitmore started and blushed, then, with an uptilt of chin: "If I need a strong irritant, yes!"
From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell
"I know; that is what you say"—this with an adorable uptilt of the pretty chin and a flash of the dark eyes which an instant before had been slumbrous wells of studious abstraction.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
A slight, humorous uptilt to his mouth relieved the face of impassivity and saved it from a too formal clericalism.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
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