Examples
“You can get a flattered face just from an upsweep of your longer hair.”
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
“The mother just up and left, Brenda had told a customer through the bobby pins she held in one corner of her mouth while she fashioned an upsweep.”
“My mother delighted in towering over him, wearing her hair in an upsweep, donning a wiglet for extra height, and then topping it all off with a hat—not some discreet cloche or beret but a plumed number with feathers soaring six inches up into the air.”
“She too wore her hair piled in an upsweep, but her pièce de résistance was the locket she wore that hung down to her navel.”
“Once her finger touched it, it was difficult to stop—though she knew she had to let the wild upsweep of the tornado she might create stay an image in her mind.”
“The camp was in the triangle created by the forest, a sharp, unexpected upsweep of bluff and the muddy leftover trickle of a creek.”
“He sighed heavily, eased his bow off his shoulder and shifted, trying to find a more comfortable position on the gentle upsweep of slope.”
“Dressed in a shimmering gold-sequined sheath, her blond hair in a vintage upsweep, Stella strode into the boutique on gold sandals with three-inch heels to the cheers and applause of the forty invited guests.”
“Dressed in her usual business suit, sensible pumps, and upsweep hair-do, Mrs. Tamburro was rocking the sexy librarian look.”
“We should expect to see more long wavy hairstyles either rolled into an upsweep or casually down below the shoulders that perfectly compliments, and romantically softens the slightly edgy, dramatic makeup.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘upsweep’.
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excelsior
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior! - Longfellowwood shavings, lofty, heights, motto, 24 lines to the inch, falchion, spectral glaciers, falling star, Cinclodes excelsior, hornero, Paracelsus, parcels and 18 more...
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Unidentified sounds...
...detected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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out of interest
lithesome, wholesome, gruesome, tiresome, worrisome, cumbersome, lonesome, loathsome, burdensome, fearsome, wearisome, irksome and 97 more...
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Words and phrases from Dick's novel
phone-grid transe..., pol, nat, six, Callisto cuddle s..., gelatinlike, quibble, hot-compart, crampedly, micromag, schmalch, blep and 48 more...
Tweets
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yarb Citation on featherplastic. Mar 26, 2012