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face-up
adv. In a position that the face may be seen
Usage examples of "face-up".
He looked at Anna, then at the three bodies— two charcoaled bundles, and one lying face-up, still moaning.
He looked at Anna, then at the three bodies two charcoaled bundles, and one lying face-up, still moaning.
I could start swimming nearer the surface and wait till the chopper sighted me and then I could put out a cloud with the shark repellent and dive and leave it for them as a decoy while I tried to get clear, or I could go straight down to a hundred feet where they couldn't see me and swim face-up with the sun as a bearing and try to hit the island before narcosis reduced me to a drifting piece of flotsam and the air in the tanks ran out.