cupped

Speech parts

1. cupped - Adjective

2. cupped - Verb

Derived from cup

Meaning

of Cup

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Examples

You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower, Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven. R. S. Thomas

But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart. Diana Gabaldon

Death, go somewhere, get lost! I'm not done as yet – Joy still flows from the amphora of colors into my cupped hands. Ghani Khan

At an ink-stained desk, with his chin cupped in his hands, Titus was contemplating, as in a dream, the chalk-marks on the blackboard. They represented a sum in short division, but might as well have been some hieroglyphic message from a moonstruck prophet to his lost tribe a thousand years ago. Mervyn Peake

Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I'd often disputed. But it turned out that it didn't matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms. Cheryl Strayed

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back. Ken Follett

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