(Geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
1 Beyond the lake a peak upthrust its rocky front into the sky.
2 Huge stumps upthrust like beacons in a ruffled harbor, grim, massive butts.
3 He pointed his finger at a foaming upthrust of tossing water.
4 The dot at the center is not elongated enough to be considered an upthrust .
5 One stood rigid at the top of an upthrust stone with his arms crossed.
6 This pattern is a tented arch of the upthrust type.
7 The match burned down, and dropped from his upthrust fingers.
8 The tented arch is directly beneath the innermost loop, and is of the upthrust type.
9 The two men were still sitting on the logs and leaning lazily against upthrust boughs.
10 Mr. Pennypacker leaned with an air of satisfaction against the upthrust bough of a fallen oak.
11 Lame Man Bench was a great upthrust block of basalt grown over with scraggly juniper forest.
12 An upthrust must be an ending ridge.
13 Rectangular, upon their outlines no spike of pyramid, no curve of globe showing, uncompromisingly ponderous, they upthrust .
14 His tusks were stained almost black, except at the upthrust tips, where they faded to red-tinted amber.
15 He pressed closer to the swayingly kneeling man, and with upthrust muzzle sought to kiss the blubbering face.
16 Sheltered by upthrust teeth of rock, they looked down, sickened, on what the glow of the bonfires revealed.
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