Noun : Market observers are hoping the upthrust can be sustained. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Frost caused the ground to upthrust. From Dictionary.com.
The female developed fearsome upthrust tusks as she matured. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
Her face was a bit more angular, her chin more defiantly upthrust. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
As the Mutare spoke, Conan plummeted toward an upthrust iron spike. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
It showed a blood-colored sun setting over a jagged upthrust of rock and ice. From Wordnik.com. [YESTERDAY’S SON] Reference
Two sunken cheeks ran like fault lines into the upthrust of his hawk-like nose. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Choice]
Cheekbones too large for the rest of her skull upthrust fleshy eggs beneath each blue eye. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Choice]
In spite of the night chill, sweat glazed her upthrust breasts and trickled down her thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Valiant]
Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields?. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Now with each hard upthrust inside her, the noose was pulled tighter and tighter around his throat. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Black convex eyes stared down at them while the upthrust ears were each as big as a good-sized steer. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Behind them the river had receded slowly; ahead of them the great purple upthrust never seemed closer. From Wordnik.com. [A Heritage of Stars]
Neither one helped in the shadows cast by the pinnacled upthrust which Laure's party was investigating. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
He saw Hugi's outline hunched by the low red fire, otherwise only an upthrust of masses against the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
An unobtrusive upthrust on the western horizon was the dome of a food production center, purely robotic. From Wordnik.com. [Genesis]
Cale squinted, then frowned as a small figure stepped out of shadows between two slabs of upthrust stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenant of the Forge]
It stood on an upthrust-go ahead and say "hill" -and a shaft ran vertically from an eccentric drive wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
It was obvious that Morley had hired him for his upthrust honker, not for his ability to intimidate hard men. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
Just a little upthrust of the tail-elevators and ailerons brought them again into the horizontal in a huge swoop. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
Free money and free food flow like a snowfall of pretty cheques upon the upthrust, grasping hands of the entitled. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The hub was a height, a pyramid, an upthrust of rock that soared above the flatness of the surrounding countryside. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
The upthrust tower seemed fashioned of azurite crystals: dark blue spears thrusting up through the crystalline water. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
The water had become a narrow, lazy stream, one of many cutting through parallel ridges of upthrust granite and schist. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
She challenged the others with an upthrust chin and no one dared gainsay her, for she herself often communicated by touch. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The animal paused, started to step out onto an upthrust boulder, but the distance was too great and the current too swift. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
Rectangular, upon their outlines no spike of pyramid, no curve of globe showing, uncompromisingly ponderous, they upthrust. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
He made a rapid decision and brought back a foot, delivering a solid blow to the upthrust portion of the unbalanced figure below. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
Kharl and the five other riders reined up just above the jagged upthrust gray rocks before the patrollers had stopped riding the road. From Wordnik.com. [Ordermaster]
About the cratered girdle of the upthrust shields a glimmering mistiness was gathering; a translucent mist, beryl pale and beryl clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The gloomy peak, which had long appeared capping the heights ahead, proved to be the culmination of a huge upthrust of porphyritic trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
And in its center, mounted in a high upthrust of rock, stood an imposing black structure that appeared to be made entirely of cast iron. From Wordnik.com. [THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS] Reference
The mountains have a granite core flanked by metamorphosed sediments and owe their dominating height to two consecutive phases of upthrust. From Wordnik.com. [Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal] Reference
The upthrust has seen the weekly close at its highest since May. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Should follow-up buying emerge at lower levels, a fresh upthrust is not ruled out. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Expect the upthrust to continue as long as bulls keep the counter above the Rs 610 levels. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
So far, the upthrust was on poor volumes, which implies bear covering was responsible for the uptick. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
To maintain upthrust, bulls will need to hold prices above Rs 467 on expanded volumes and open interest. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
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