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
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
Elaine Chiodi in Berkeley Township, N.J., gave us her best bowling tip: to make sure that your thumb is pointing up when you’re holding the ball.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2022
“Anbaromagnetism. Like anbaric. Those lights,” she said, pointing up at the ornamental streetlight.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
