upturn

How to use upturn in a sentence

More than 560,000 Americans have died of covid-19, and the country has seen an upturn in infections in the past week.

The upturn has alarmed policymakers just as students return to school and offices try to bring back employees who have been working from home.

He was just in time to catch the quick upturn of a passing face.

In the void Glancing, his tail upturn'd its venomous fork, With sting like scorpion's arm'd.

Straightway the winds upturn the main, and great seas rise; we are tossed asunder over the dreary gulf.

This was about twenty feet long, and ended in a little upturn so that a sled would shoot up with a jerk and come down with a bang.

There a slant upturn of tight-drawn lids revealed the quintessence of priestly cruelty.

But after a' the Kirk was oor ain mither, and what for should the King misca' or upturn her?

I don't believe that any man or clique could bring this thing about unless we were really on the upturn.

THE GRAFTERSFRANCIS LYNDE

They upturn with rapidity and completeness, led by a shameless hog of a rooster.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985