upthrust

1 The sea stone dominated the approaches to the outer harbor, a massive grey-green upthrust looming fifty feet above the waters.

2 He flew blindly, not looking down at the neat domed houses and the gardens and the people, but ahead, to the eastern sky and the upthrust scarp of the hills.

3 It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet.

4 The inflated neck was arched from the center of the coil and the heart-shaped head, with red tongue out-thrust, waved slowly as the upthrust tail vibrated angrily.

5 Will drew back behind a stony upthrust, sat up and used his glasses, searching everywhere among the rocks and bushes down the pass.

6 The beast had aimed for his throat; his long fangs met the upthrust arm and sank into it, crunching it to the bone.

7 After all, the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which began 50 million years ago, has been responsible for the upthrust of Mt. Everest and the world's tallest mountain range, the Himalaya.

8 Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head.

9 The trees their mournful branches lift aloft: The oak with knotty twigs is full of trust, With bud-thronged bough the cherry in the croft; The chestnut holds her gluey knops upthrust.

10 There was something like defiance in that sudden upthrust.

11 Brass players stood like sentinels along the edge of an upthrust triangle of grass against the backdrop of a New York cityscape gilded by the late sun.

12 The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that’s encircled by rugged river canyons.

13 Later, with the wind in my face, I peeped over a rocky upthrust near a large snowbank.

14 A “flagpole” or sharp upthrust is seen on June 19.

15 Then look up to where the horizon line should be to find the Himalayas towering like upthrust fangs, each snowy crag or escarpment crisply articulated, every draped and drifting cloud bank ethereal.

16 The crescent lines with which their lowered arms answer their upthrust legs are terrific, like the long, slanting curve of the two legs.

17 They were skirting the very edge of it where it rose abruptly from the plain; a very great gray upthrust of granite wall beside them was like a gray blade slanted out of the plain.

18 In the hilly topography of eastern Rajasthan — part of an ancient mountain range that long predates the upthrust of the Himalaya — villagers built small damlike obstructions so that water could be trapped in depressions.

19 The dark hair is short, upthrust, much toyed with – a grown-out version of Salander’s punky undercut, which suits her but which the actor isn’t so enamoured of: “I’ve just got to patiently wait it out.”

20 In her 1982 painting “Crevice,” slabs of upthrust rock tumbled against one another, with a pair of disembodied feet and ankles adding a ghostly human presence.

1 上冲

uprush upthrow

2 隆起

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3 上冲断层

overthrust