Sentence example with the word 'upheave'

upheave

arise, consume, dissolve, gut with fire, jerk up, mount, rise, stand up, unleash the hurricane, uprear, waste

Definition v. lift forcefully from beneath

Last update: September 22, 2015


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But they escaped annihilation by machine-gun fire and stormed through the upheaved earth into Gommecourt Park, killing many Germans and sending back batches of prisoners.   [Please select]

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The mask had slipped, and he caught a glimpse of the naked, passionate soul, upheaved to its depths.   [Please select]

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Continents have been raised, mountains have been upheaved, vast masses of rock have been scattered into fragments.   [Please select]

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For now and again some part of the sea-bottom was upheaved, slowly or quickly, till it became dry land.   [Please select]

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The upheaved glacial mud hardened into the soil of modern Norfolk.   [Please select]

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At another pit in upheaved earth he said: "That's Charlie Lowndes again."   [Please select]

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Most of the living were stupefied amid their dead in the upheaved trenches, slashed woods, and deepest dugouts.   [Please select]

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Water and wind attacked the passers-by; riddled, flooded, and upheaved the roads.   [Please select]

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The latter was mightily amused by the adventure, and continued for a considerable time afterwards to upheave his huge shoulders with suppressed laughter.   [Please select]

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Ere long they passed into a dreary region where the ancient fires that upheaved the island from the deep seemed to have scorched the land into a condition of perpetual desolation.   [Please select]

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