Sentence examples for thrust upwards from inspiring English sources

We were heading towards El Nido, in Bacuit Bay, which is dominated by karst limestone formations that thrust upwards from the sea.

This building site enclave is a strange echo of the city that stood there before it was thrust upwards and sideways by the 6.3-magnitude quake just before 1pm on 22 February 2011.

So not only can it take off vertically or hold itself down by sending thrust upwards, but it can float effortlessly in even choppy air.

In the northern Australian territories, humid air hits heated land and is thrust upwards, rapidly cooling and condensing to form clouds that are taller than the world's highest mountains.

Yet most of the tectonism that affects Pacific islands occurs on the overriding plate at convergent plate boundaries as a result of the ocean floor being thrust upwards, usually episodically (Ota and Yamaguchi 2004).

This allows the craft to launch vertically, remain in a fixed position in the air, travel in any direction, rotate in any direction, and thrust upwards thereby 'gluing down' on landing.

When we took off again by streaking across the lough at top speed and then thrusting upwards into the sky, Captain Powell pointed out that the day before a young man had proposed to his girlfriend in the seat behind us – producing an engagement ring from his pocket on landing.

Out the window I can see a set of boards with the points of long nails thrusting upwards, like an Indian Fakir's bed.

I then grabbed the Sam Maguire and thrust it upwards to the sky.

With all the action taking place only 24km down, the seabed was thrust violently upwards, triggering huge waves.Could such a chain of seismic events happen elsewhere in Japan?

Just make a stepping motion, as though you're stepping on a ladder, while using your hands to thrust you upwards in long and powerful blasts.