upward-curving

Do you want to write a soul-wrenching tragedy, but find you have a smiling, upward-curving plot line?

Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010

But 250-pound adults armed with sharp, upward-curving tusks can be dangerous if they think they're cornered.

In Berlin's Boar War, Some Side With the Hogs 2008

Walking shoes often have a sole with an upward-curving toe to allow the walker to roll through the gait.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

Walking shoes often have a sole with an upward-curving toe to allow the walker to roll through the gait.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

Walking shoes often have a sole with an upward-curving toe to allow the walker to roll through the gait.

How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

An upward-curving tusk protruded from either side of the powerful lower jaw.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

Rushing toward them, amidst a cloud of dust rising as if flung up by a whirlwind, only his domed head and shoulders visible above the tallgrass, was a huge, pale russet mammoth with fantastic and immense, upward-curving tusks.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

And after his second effort with Ginny, in which he had succeeded a little better in blanking his mind to his wife, he had lain awake when he had wanted to sleep, picturing in his mind that upward-curving lip of Arabella's and the white, even teeth beneath it, and wondering idly if there would be any pleasure in kissing her mouth.

The Obedient Bride Balogh, Mary 1989

"Oh," my lady said, very quietly, and I shivered where I stood, because it was a world we faced, a land, an upward-curving horizon hazing into misty distances, with a vast central lake that disappeared in an overhead glare of lighting far above.

Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982

Such a canoe is hewn out of a single cedar log, and presents a very graceful appearance with its upward-curving bow.

The Western United States A Geographical Reader