Example sentences for: upturned

How can you use “upturned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's hard not to think of Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy : Alone on the high scaffold, paint dripping into his upturned eyes, he pushes forward with his Sisyphean task as Rex Harrison (playing Michelangelo's impatient patron, Pope Julius II) paces angrily below.

  • Following a common seaport custom, the white clapboard village church, with its nave shaped like an upturned ship, was designed and built by local shipwrights.

  • A common sight in China (either one) is two individuals closely observing the upturned, outstretched palm of one while the other “draws” ideographs on that palm with a forefinger.

  • You’re looking for Rafal Rubí, a site with two stone structures shaped like upturned boats, navetas (prehistoric burial chambers).

  • The column commented that Greenwich 'is not a community of Airstream trailers where people sit outside on cinder blocks, whiling away the hours by taking aim with their BB guns at upturned Buicks.


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