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Sentence Examples Tenchiki cupped his hands into a puddle of water and splashed into her, hoping it'd get her face. A plaintive shirtless man, with cupped hands extended in front of him, holds the two halves of a broken eggshell. He showed his cupped hands to Bligh and they were full of engraved tinder boxes, rings, broken teeth capped with gold. From the pictures you sent, I can see that the boards have cupped slightly, causing the unnailed, groove side of each floor board to rise. Turning the water on, I cupped my hands under the faucet, and splashed some water onto the crusted blood. Her hands were cupped around a mug of hot cocoa, the marshmallows on the top were already melting from the heat. Clad in horizontal slats of red pine, the walls bow gently outward, like cupped hands or a ship's hull. Gently, gingerly, she picked up the shoe and held it carefully in her cupped hand. When he cupped her cheek with his other hand in a tender concerned way, she tried desperately not to melt. He filled his cupped hands with cold water and got rid of most of the dirt, then he dried his face with the roller towel. And most folks will remember Fay Wray as the woman being cupped in King Kong's hand as she screamed for help. He has pressed herself against her side and he's slightly cupped in one of her thin hands. She cupped a warm glass of tea in her nimble fingers, as she watched the translucent wave of of mist roll over the English country side. When you step onto the cupped stair tread of an old farm cottage or Victorian rambler you think of all the people who passed this way before you. Scrambling to his feet, he cupped his hands and shouted in the direction he thought the voice came from. Dustin, now panicking, kicked his legs and cupped his hands, and started to swim downstream. A shrill roar rumbled out from its mouth, and he cupped his hands over his ears to try to block it out. Slowly she lifted the lighter to her mouth and then cupped her hands around it to block the wind. Assured that her spine was undamaged and her limbs unbroken, he cupped his hand against her cheek. Turning the tap of one of the sinks I cupped my hands and grabbed some water. Show More Sentences I turned on the sink, cupped my hands under the faucet, and drank some of the water that was trapped in my hands. Take your measurements where your fingers curve back in, while your hands are naturally cupped. His feet were slightly apart from each other and his left hand was cupped under his right hand. Using a large metal scoop, he dipped into the barrel and poured some dark colored beans into his cupped hand. He reached out with one long arm, cupped his hand behind her neck and pulled her to him. Alain cupped his ears as the creature's high pitched scream shattered every window pane in the room. Two set of feet trampled the house, and Virginia cupped a hand over her mouth, trying to silence her heavy breathing and inevitable sobs. She cupped the glass of sparkling apple cider between her palms as she stared at John in amazement. Both men stood and toasted one another, touching their cupped hands and drinking deep. Harriette's expression of resolve softened, and she reached out and cupped Marguerite's chin in a motherly fashion. I leaned back on my hands while she poured water on my hair, tiny little cupped palmfuls trickling down over my scalp. The articulation for the third metatarsal forms a somewhat rounded triangle and is cupped. Standing up, I cupped my hands around my mouth, raising my voice before calling out his name. He put on his helmet and cupped his hand around the earhole, stoking and prodding the crowd even more. He cupped his hand and caught the knuckle bone, which included the attached leg bone. They are shallowly cupped in shape and of a soft pink colour, paling a little on the outer petals. The flowers are a soft peachy-pink and have a slightly cupped rosette formation. They sat on charpoys, heads lowered, hands cupped around their faces. Swiping his forehead he strode to the drinking fountain and cupped some water into his hand before splashing his face to remove some of the sweat and cool off a bit. A little later, one of the young guys cupped his hands around his ears, like an ear trumpet, and the other asked whether doing that helped. Show More Sentences Relax in the dark: With cupped hands, block off light entering your eyes and after a few seconds take your hands away. The hind legs of female bumble bees have a wide, cupped area for collecting pollen. Charming shell-like flowers of cupped formation, held with perfect poise above the foliage. A slight swishing with the hand will break up the clump, and the bloom will still easily pass through the open fingers of a cupped hand. The other hand can be cupped like a megaphone to direct the sound. Large trusses of prettily and distinctly cupped little flowers, providing an attractive effect. One hand holds an Indonesian clove cigarette, the other is cupped behind his left ear. Once a female manakin selects a mate, she constructs a small shallow, cupped nest near the ground. To the right and behind, an 11-year-old Virginia is watching them intently, her chin cupped in her hand, those round, disarming eyes staring out. For the cupped oyster, Crassostrea gigas, preference shall be given to stock which is selectively bred to reduce spawning in the wild. The oysters must be packaged flat, with the cupped valve on the bottom, to guarantee the most favourable preservation conditions possible. The oyster's upper valve is flat, while the lower is cupped, creating a very strong seal. On first observation, we noted that oysters take on a more cupped shape and that growth is comparable to that obtained in floating bags. Deeply cupped flowers gradually develop into an open, slightly cupped rosette. The lower is cupped to accommodate the body, while the upper is flat and acts like a lid. The flowers are semi-double and of open, cupped shape with prominent stamens. Deeply cupped at first, the flower soon opens out to a shallow quartered cup. The outer portion of the ear is cupped so it can capture the sound vibrations in the air. In the cast iron separating chamber, a cupped baffle reverses the flow, forcing steam back on itself. While holding the hex shaft with the wrench secure with the cupped washer and hex bolt removed earlier. Show More Sentences Situated at 5,400 feet, it's encircled by jagged peaks that make you feel you're cupped inside a caldera. I cupped my right hand over it and rolled the lavender between my palms. When she reached out for her change and turned to walk away, the shopkeeper held on to the gold coins between his thumb and forefinger and cupped a hand to his ear. While floating along and staring up at the pinkish rock walls, it suddenly seems as if the canyon has reached out and cupped me lightly in the palm of its hand. This effect is accentuated if the glasses are cupped in human hands. The dive leader cupped him under the belly and tickled him on the chin. She bent over and cupped the little girl's chin in her hand. Beneath the sheets, she cupped me and gave me a playful squeeze. I cupped my searing left cheek in my hand as I sobbed, muffling my mouth with the other so not to wake my daughter. They cupped each other's hands and shifted their body weight ever-so-slightly. He stands in the middle of the sidewalk, eyes closed, head tilted to one side, the harmonica cupped in his hands. Addicts roam the streets with bloodshot eyes, wild hair and cupped palms. Once a reduviid happened to cross paths with me, and excitedly I cupped it in my hands and ran into the house to show my parents. Groupers and snappers are overfished and northern brown shrimp and American cupped oyster are considered fully fished approaching overfished. Winterbottom will hope British sensibilities haven't changed that much, because this film has mounds of flesh in it – almost entirely female, and a lot of it cupped in the hands of Steve Coogan, who plays Raymond. The youngest leaves are dwarfed and outwardly cupped. The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. The flowers of this rose commence as charming peachy pink cups, gradually opening to form neatly cupped rosettes. Each bloom has a perfect ring of creamy-apricot waxy petals enclosing numerous smaller petals. He squatted at the sight of us, cupped his hands, and clapped them rhythmically — pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock — finishing with a half-beat flourish. Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water. Show More Sentences The blooms commence as pretty, rounded buds gradually opening to form very large, full, cupped, rosette shaped flowers with the outer petals recurving back slightly. He cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted to the bow guard. After spreading a polymer goop on their hands, the kids in the Science Adventure Day Camp held them up to the sunlight, then cupped their hands to see what happened. Water-soaked moss decorating a potted plant will do, as will the humid packaging around plants, or a spoonful of water cupped in the leaf of an ornamental bromeliad. Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands. Families grouped within this suborder all have an anterior velum across the head, and high columnar rhinophoral sheaths, each with a smallish distal section cupped in the top. Examples from Classical Literature The optic disc becomes deeply cupped and the tissues of the optic disc and optic nerve extremely atrophied. Before anyone saw me, I cupped my hand, and fired the gas tank of the nearest police cruiser. In cupping for revulsive purposes, one cupped on a distant part to relieve excess of blood in the affected part. Jimmy's neighbor had cupped his hand behind his ear and was evidently disappointed. Turning away from the curious throng, Mark cupped his hand, then together they all three peered at that magic number. She brought it obediently and poured it into his cupped hands. Forepaugh cupped his hands over his mouth and gave the call. Dawes cupped his hands over the plate glass and peered inside. No forger brought these cupped stones in his waistcoat pocket. Not only were horses routinely bled, they were also cupped and leeched. Mohamad Bogharib came up, and I have got a cupper, who cupped my chest. In his cupped hands he brought the water toward his face and, at the moment he was about to apply it, made pointless attempts to blow it away. Rain, beating heavily upon his body, awakened him and sitting up he cupped his hands and caught the precious drops which he transferred to his parched throat. Find more words! 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