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  • verb Past participle of upthrow

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Examples

  • Where there were no upthrown mounds of gravel, great holes and trenches yawned, and chasms where the thick rime of the earth had been peeled to bed-rock.

    LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

  • Lake Victoria is relatively young; its current basin was formed only 400,000 years ago, when westward-flowing rivers were dammed by an upthrown crustal block.

    Lake Victoria 2009

  • The scanty growth paused abruptly half – way down the gulf, and the rock below was perpetually damp from the upthrown spray.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Watching the shade from his own soul upthrown 3245

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • The light from outside was odd and upthrown and spoke of snow.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • The light from outside was odd and upthrown and spoke of snow.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • In her mind's eye, Savil could see the falcon looking in what must be her direction, the raptor's sure, steady gaze finding her amidst the mass of upthrown debris, still quite some distance off.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • The curved blade, red in the morn­ing sun, sliced down through the bandit's suddenly upthrown left arm almost as though there were no bone there, only flesh, and landed solidly in the bend of the bandit's sword arm, neatly cutting the forearm away and spraying red blood into the morning light, the bandit's sword tip coming within a handsbreath of Casca's face before falling away.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • With showering blows, and dust in clouds upthrown.

    The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles

  • Och, the great joyousness of the dancing, with the lassies taking a good hold of their skirts and lifting them to be getting the bonny steps in, and the boys from the glens hooching with upthrown arm, now this and now that, and their shoes beating out the time as though the music and the dancing was in the very blood of them, and indeed so it was.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

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