pointing up

Example Sentences

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“I’ve been up there on ropes, looking for it for six summers, just in case we were wrong,” he says, pointing up at sheer cliff faces.

From BBC • May 24, 2024

“We feel like the arrow is really pointing up and that, over the next few years, he is really going to take on a lot of starts,” Friedman said of Glasnow last week.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

When Petit is on a wire, the one thing he does not want to see is a smartphone pointing up at him.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

He watched, past the waves, a whale breach, its tail pointing up, as if it were balancing beneath the sea on its great, balene’d snout.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2023

“That’s Melina,” I said, pointing up at her, and that was all the time for introductions we had.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs