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emphasize, especially by identification
This novel points up the racial problems in England
How To Use point up In A Sentence
- But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
- The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
- Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind.
- An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
- His report card can point up his talent for maths.
- That's not much of a discriminator, because all scientists are under career pressure all the time, but it does point up the fact that this kind of misconduct is not motivated by simple monetary gain.
- So maybe the French tennis playing public were playing for one ‘gros denier tournois ‘per point up to the maximum stake of sixty deniers for a game.’
- Then ease them out by pushing a pencil point up through the drainage hole in the base. The Sun
- Also the four-pointed contraptions called chevaux de frise, which -- however you throw them -- will always stick a fatal point upwards, to impale the horse or man who cannot or will not look where he is going. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front
- No, the ‘pot, meet kettle’ comment is intended to point up your blatant hypocrisy … not surprising that you fail to understand it, although whether your obtuseness is a result of malice of just plain stupidity is a subject for further debate. Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’