"upraise" is not a word in standard English.
The word you may be looking for is "praise". Example sentence: She was praised for her hard work.
Both possessed an unusually large claw on each foot, as well as ossified tendon reinforcements in the tail that enabled them to maintain balance while striking and slashing at prey with one foot upraised.
The memorized liturgy includes thematic medleys of Bible verses, songs, chants, and prayers and ends with members raising their right hands in homage (hence Ringatu, or "Upraised Hand").
The small silhouetted human figures had upraised arms but were not used as skull racks.
Initially, in a generalized outline of the Precambrian history of the region, the Vishnu Schist was upraised, folded, and metamorphosed and then slowly eroded and worn down to a flat surface.
In the middle of the room stood a number of pedestals, most of them with mirrored tops, upon which were Calatrava's most recent sculptural endeavors: red and black ceramic vases, inverted so that they stood on their necks with the drums of their bases upraised, painted with images culled from Calatrava's sketchbooks of leaping figures, horses, and bulls.
Pfister, working with the cinematographer Jess Hall, produces some stunning scenes — magnificent all-black or all-glass underground laboratories, and a vast field of white solar panels that look like palms upraised in supplication.
One of them, Vasari writes, is a lutenist painted "with a leg drawn up and his instrument resting upon it, and with the hands touching the strings in the act of running over them, an ear intent on the harmony, the head upraised, and the mouth slightly open, in such a way that whoever beholds him cannot persuade himself that he should not also hear the voice".
There might have been an upraising if a guide had not peeked into the restaurant in the nick of time, hunting for his missing party.
Directly in front of me, a reporter with a shaved head stood with his pinkie and forefinger upraised, like a metalhead making the sign of the Devil.
Or does Mailer intend the book as a springboard — a way of looking forward to the work he still wants to do? Mailer and his wife, the painter Norris Church, spend most of their time now in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the famous retreat that is situated at the end of Cape Cod's upraised hook.
The central figure's right arm was missing, so Montorsoli created a new one, upraised in a gesture of defiance.
