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- verb Present participle of
uptilt .
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Examples
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The formation of the escarpment is attributed to long past crustal uptilting.
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Nick instantly felt a stirring of renewed arousal as he looked at that golden body — legs long and silky, hips and waist slenderly curvaceous, breasts firm and uptilting, the nipples rosily pouting.
Pregnant by the Millionaire Mortimer, Carole 2006
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Later, a general uptilting had occurred, standing these alternate layers
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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"You're a poor soldier!" says she, with a little scornful uptilting of her chin.
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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On the other hand, the uptilting of machines, the accidents due to the so-called "Holes in the air," which have dotted the historic pages with accidents, were brought about at low altitudes.
Aeroplanes 1915
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"Well, I'm not Jimmy Bean, either," interrupted the boy, uptilting his chin.
Pollyanna Grows Up 1914
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She had given him a third, uptilting look with her speech; and now it was as if the great eligible had seen her for the first time.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Where there had been a full mustache there was now only a thinly clipped line, waxed and uptilting in needle points.
The Lighted Match Charles Neville Buck 1904
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"Well, I'm not Jimmy Bean, either," interrupted the boy, uptilting his chin.
Pollyanna Grows Up 1894
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"Of course, tell him," braved out Ruth, uptilting her head with the movement of a fawn surprised in the forest.
Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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