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upsweep - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun transitive verb
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noun upward sweep or curve .verb
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Examples
The mother just up and left, Brenda had told a customer through the bobby pins she held in one corner of her mouth while she fashioned an upsweep .
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
The mother just up and left, Brenda had told a customer through the bobby pins she held in one corner of her mouth while she fashioned an upsweep .
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
You can get a flattered face just from an upsweep of your longer hair.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
The mother just up and left, Brenda had told a customer through the bobby pins she held in one corner of her mouth while she fashioned an upsweep .
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
The camp was in the triangle created by the forest, a sharp, unexpected upsweep of bluff and the muddy leftover trickle of a creek.
Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010
He sighed heavily, eased his bow off his shoulder and shifted, trying to find a more comfortable position on the gentle upsweep of slope.
Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010
My mother delighted in towering over him, wearing her hair in an upsweep , donning a wiglet for extra height, and then topping it all off with a hat—not some discreet cloche or beret but a plumed number with feathers soaring six inches up into the air.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
Dressed in a shimmering gold-sequined sheath, her blond hair in a vintage upsweep , Stella strode into the boutique on gold sandals with three-inch heels to the cheers and applause of the forty invited guests.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
She too wore her hair piled in an upsweep , but her pièce de résistance was the locket she wore that hung down to her navel.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
Once her finger touched it, it was difficult to stop—though she knew she had to let the wild upsweep of the tornado she might create stay an image in her mind.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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