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Example sentences for "uplifts"

Lexicographically close words:
uplands; uplift; uplifted; uplifter; uplifting; upmost; upon; upone; uponne; upoun
  1. The brief cadence at the close is this: All force runs back into mind for its source, constant support, and uplifts into higher grades.

  2. Uplifts deposition of the bones and implements in of the Himalayas and "Orange Sand.

  3. God hath writ on high Such a victory As uplifts the nation with its psalm.

  4. As a violent wind uplifts The dry chaff heaped upon a threshing-floor, And sends it scattered through the air abroad, So did that wave fling loose the ponderous beams.

  5. Earth Uplifts a general cry for guilt and wrong, And heaven is listening.

  6. She repeats his words almost in a whisper, her eyes on the ground, then suddenly she uplifts her graceful form, and, lazily clasping her arms behind her head, looks at him.

  7. She uplifts her eyes, too, and fixes them on Mrs. Chichester the frivolous.

  8. The swelling of the breast under strong emotion uplifts understanding.

  9. We stop, fixed to the ground, stupefied by the sudden host that thunders from every side; then a simultaneous effort uplifts our mass again and throws it swiftly forward.

  10. A visible tremor has run through the files, a start which uplifts our heads and holds us all in extreme expectation.

  11. In the work done after his fortieth year there is greater freedom, an ease and an increased strength, with a daring quality which uplifts and gives you courage.

  12. Between the regions of uplifts were depressions in which sediments accumulated.

  13. Away from these marked uplifts epeirogenic movements caused the disappearance of the seas of earlier Eocene times, so that towards the close of the Miocene Period, the main features of the Eurasian continent were much as they are now.

  14. Then he resumed the hunt once more, looking here and there between the rocky uplifts and in the deep depressions.

  15. He saw tracks in the soft soil between the strong uplifts and he believed that they were fresh.

  16. It is popularly said that a man uplifts a wife to his own rank: it as often happens that a woman uplifts her husband to the dignity of her own character.

  17. In camp, the roughest man idealizes his far-off home, and every word of love uplifts him to a lover.

  18. It uplifts its voice about two hours before sunset and continues calling intermittently until some time after sunrise.

  19. The Indian cuckoo does not call so frequently as formerly, but, by way of compensation, the pied crested cuckoo uplifts his voice at short intervals.

  20. Caupolican uplifts his axe, and cries: Gods, of our land be yours this sacrifice!

  21. A succession of uplifts or of depressions of the base level yields terraces in series, as they appear schematically represented in Fig.

  22. The present Laurentian Lakes owe their existence to the elevation by successive uplifts of the country to the northward and eastward, since the glacier retired from the lake region.

  23. These ridges mark each a stage within a series of successive uplifts which have brought the island to its present height.

  24. Thanks, 'tis a grateful air: The weariness of travel it uplifts From heavy brow and body with its breath, Delicious as cool water to the touch.

  25. Considerable crustal movements affected the American coast-lines in Mesozoic times, and during these uplifts the strata suffered fracture and displacement, but were subjected to comparatively little folding.

  26. The later uplifts (negative or positive) of the same region were not attended by tilting and folding of strata, for the Mesozoic and Tertiary deposits, like those of South America, lie in comparatively horizontal positions.

  27. Some, however, are beginning to doubt, with Professor Suess, whether any vast regional uplifts are possible.

  28. In the earlier geological periods linear or axial uplifts and volcanic action again and again marked the growth of land on the Atlantic sea-board.

  29. This, of course, is what might have been expected, for earthquakes are most characteristic of volcanic regions and of those areas in which mountain-uplifts of recent geological age occur.

  30. In eastern North America and Greenland, just as in western Europe, no grand mountain uplifts have taken place for a prodigious time.

  31. To God the Emperor uplifts his hands; Bends low his head and counsel takes in thought.

  32. The King, in hope 'tis but a swoon, with tears And pity taking both her hands, uplifts Her form; the head upon the shoulders sinks.

  33. You are depriving him of all that encourages and uplifts and rejoices his soul when you ruin his shrines and altars!

  34. Great dikes and uplifts of jagged rocks towered above us; and up, up, up, lifted the other walls above that.

  35. Looking to the west, we could see that here was another of those sloping uplifts of rock, with the river cutting down, increasing the depth of the canyon with every mile.

  36. Oh, happy is that bell with hearty throat, Which neither age nor time can e'er defeat, Which faithfully uplifts its pious note, Like an aged soldier on his beat.

  37. And this is the reason why it does not soothe or delight, but uplifts us.

  38. For whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted.

  39. I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uplifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.