sweep upward
Example Sentences
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Rhapsodic swaths of wind and brass sweep upward in inverted cascades, and the clang of raw, unturned percussion represents the noisy soundscape of a building site.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2014
His eyes sweep upward from stalls to gallery, pausing for a moment at the Royal Box.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beam of a searchlight is used just as a flag is used, to sweep upward for "perpendicular," downward for "front," and to right and to left.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The cheers of the men on the beach had been drowned in the roar of the powerful motors and twin propellers when they left the land and commenced to sweep upward in a graceful curve.
From Air Service Boys over the Atlantic by Charles Amory Beach
For an instant the brown lines shiver and hang hesitant under the sting of the death-hail—but after that moment they leap forward and sweep upward.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
