upthrust in a sentence

Examples

1. The weight of the object in the fluid is reduced, because of the force acting on it, which is called upthrust.
2. The apparent weight in air is the true weight minus the upthrust ( which equals the weight of air displaced by the oil drop ).
3. In places, islands of upthrust rock impede the flow of these streams, forcing them to the surface, along with their cargoes of meteorites.
4. It sits like an upthrust piece of ocean floor that has crashed through the pavement, having taken on the permanent look of an alien outcropping.
5. It occurs where the oceanic Nazca Plate slides under the continental South American Plate and is associated with the upthrust and volcanic activity of the Andes.
6. That first day of busing, coaches arrived from the black Roxbury section, and they were greeted with jeers, curses, upthrust middle fingers, rocks.
7. On a larger scale, the Montagne Noir result from the tectonic movements of ancient plates, ultimately resulting in the upthrust of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
8. The steeply dipping, ESE-striking rocks of the Thiviers-Payzac Unit upthrust obliquely over the Upper Gneiss Unit with a right-lateral shearing component.
9. Dividing the drainages of the Manzana and Sisquoc is a ridge known as Hurricane Deck, a rugged slab of upthrust sandstone with a trail snaking along the top.
10. Los Chimalapas is another highland region at the northern extreme of the Meseta Central and bordering with Oaxaca; it is considered the first upthrust of the Sierra Madre.