Sentence examples for thrusts upward from inspiring English sources

So Michael takes matters into his own hands — drives the lane, fakes left, nods right, goes left, spins, leaps, twirls under the basket, pumps once, switches to his right hand, thrusts upward, his wrist dunks over the opposing center's hand, but just by enough to draw the foul and set up a three-point play.

Guam, like other islands in the Marianas, is volcanic in origin, and Stuart Koyanagi, an assistant at the National Earthquake Information Center, said Sunday that the first indications pointed to a subduction earthquake, in which one of the great tectonic plates that float on the molten core of the Earth thrusts upward under another.

The crystalline terrain has been thrust upward and toward the fold and thrust belt.

They share an anvil-shape chin they tend to thrust upward for cameras.

Over nine years, the graph has thrust upward, at varying angles, to a Wimbledon championship and into history.

Normal faults have the hanging block moving downward whereas the reverse faults have the hanging block thrust upward.

The tilting caused the higher, western ends to sheer off and thrust upward along the fault lines.

From cracks and fissures, birch trees impossibly grow, twisting and thrusting upward to catch a glimpse of sun.

Our moral consensus is a river whose course shifts across the plain, constrained by the hills thrust upward by biology.

They lunged at each other, thrusting upward on hind legs and clamping their jaws onto each other's face.

The fossilized flowers were submerged in water, buried under layers of gravel and limestone, and finally thrust upward into the foggy hills of the modern-day Dominican Republic.