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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upturned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ No upturned face met his eyes.
▪ Jess shivered, looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity.
▪ I still remember his upturned face far below.
▪ The Collector looked down at the gaunt, upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an upturned flowerpot
▪ an upturned nose
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Danny's freckled face and upturned nose was crowned by a shock of bright red hair.
▪ Fundamentally she is a slightly delinquent page-boy with small buttocks and an upturned nose.
▪ I sat on an upturned box, feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back.
▪ I still remember his upturned face far below.
▪ Looking at the upturned brim of Flora's panama she decided not to ask.
▪ Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish.
Wiktionary
upturned

a. 1 turned over; inverted; capsized 2 (context of a nose etc. English) turned up at the end 3 looking upwards, turned upwards

WordNet
upturned
  1. adj. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket" [syn: overturned, upset]

  2. (used of noses) turned up at the end; "a retrousse nose"; "a small upturned nose" [syn: retrousse, tip-tilted]

Usage examples of "upturned".

A marvellous dish with upturned edge and ornamented foot was the next thing he made, and he placed it at once in the annealing oven.

Her body was graciously formed, her breasts symmetrical and firm, their aureolas were the colour of ripe mulberries, the nipples upturned and out-thrust.

Little Ivan it was, anxiously searching the back-alley bars, who found Buffo still on his feet, though wavering, and led him back to Clown Alley, there to settle him on an upturned stool before a rectangle of cracked mirrors, where Buffo flailed about, wriggled, moaned and struggled to prevent Grik and Grok repairing the ravages his debauch had made upon his make-up.

Squadron was deserted, except for a slim figure that sat, rather uncomfortably, on an upturned chock, as a Sopwith Camel, considerably damaged, landed and taxied up to the hangars.

Where was the fulgent peak of Higashi Honganji Temple, sweeping upward among the surrounding tiled roofs like the upturned chin of a princess among her retainers?

Turning about, Gilden went to the door and swung down a wooden bar that clicked into a huge, upturned hook.

Still, at thought that sometime during the day now close at hand he was to see the last of this woman who had stood there before him in his cabin, with dark eyes looking into his, with eager, oval face upturned to his, with all that glory of lustrous hair a flood about her shoulders, something unknown, unwonted, fingered at the latchets of his heart.

I jumped for the airboat, bundling in alongside Delia, turning like a leem to slice my blade down on an upturned face, beating down his rapier guard and biting deep into his skull.

Ye lispers, whisperers, singers in storms, Ye consciences murmuring faiths under forms, Ye ministers meet for each passion that grieves, Friendly, sisterly, sweetheart leaves, Oh, rain me down from your darks that contain me Wisdoms ye winnow from winds that pain me, -- Sift down tremors of sweet-within-sweet That advise me of more than they bring, -- repeat Me the woods-smell that swiftly but now brought breath From the heaven-side bank of the river of death, -- Teach me the terms of silence, -- preach me The passion of patience, -- sift me, -- impeach me, -- And there, oh there As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air, Pray me a myriad prayer.

Kennedy with manners transposed the teatray down to an upturned lithia crate, safe from eyes, low.

He had a Hollywood look, sideswept dark hair, an upturned nose, lobeless ears.

We were laughing incessantly, but carried very little away with us except that the drier one of the two, who was also unfortunately deaf, threw himself into a rhapsodical attitude with his middle finger against his cheek, and his eyes upturned to heaven, but to make sure that his finger should stick to his cheek he just wetted the end of it against his tongue first.

Upturned, this detached, rusting dinosaur-skull of a bucket let in daylight through the four foot prongs of its teeth while keeping the heat and possibly the radiation of the atomic sun out.

Upturned, this detached, rusting dinosaur-skull of a bucket let in daylight through the fourfoot prongs of its teeth while keeping the heat and possibly the radiation of the atomic sun out.

Toosday nite I peared be4 a C of upturned faces in the Red Skool House.