Sentence examples for was thrust up from inspiring English sources

One of them, occupied by a 33-year-old pregnant woman, her two small sons and 59-yearold mother, was thrust up onto a concrete barrier.

It is clear that they were formed from fracturing, or faulting, when one portion of the surface was thrust up and overrode the adjacent terrain.

Ayers was, as he told Gross, "a cartoon character or a caricature that was thrust up on the stage" for the sole purpose of damaging Barack Obama.

Each was strapped into a chair, and a large feeding tube was thrust up his nose, down his throat, and into his stomach, inducing a powerful urge to vomit.

He was thrust up to open in the home Ashes series that followed, adding his second century in the second Test at Lord's, but then dropped down to six for the start of the return series in Brisbane, climbed back to three in Adelaide when Jonathan Trott made his abrupt departure, and was dropped for the fifth Test, in Sydney.

Overthrust crystalline terrains are smaller, and the crystalline rocks themselves have not been thrust up from depths as great as those at collision zones.

Landmasses were thrust up locally as high as 82 feet (25 metres) to the east of a line extending northeastward from Kodiak Island through the western part of Prince William Sound.

Placards were thrust up saying: "We don't want money, we want jobs" and the shout went up: "Out with Heath – the bastard's lost".

A group of praying figures are thrust up against the picture plane; next to them the jaws of Leviathan swallow up the condemned, with tiny bodies flung from a bridge into a fiery abyss in the distant background.

When the mountains were thrust up, blocking their westward course to the ancient sea that once covered the American Midwest, these old rivers cut out their own routes, creating those spectacular canyons, gorges, and "narrows" that are part of Appalachian scenery.

If it is Chicxulub-size and it hits one of our landmasses, some two hundred thousand cubic kilometres of the Earth's surface will be thrust up into the atmosphere, even as the thermal radiation of the blast sets fire to the Earth's cities and forests.