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 hills sweep upward from the shore,25 With villas scattered one by one Upon their wooded spurs, and lower Bellagio blazing in the sun.
From Poems on Travel by Various
He faded down and toward the other, almost in a fall out of the path of the pencil-ray that flicked on and began a sweep upward and in.
From History Repeats by Martinez
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 Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
