How To Use Belly-up In A Sentence

To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
There are many reasons why IBM nearly went belly-up, not least the fact that Big Blue had become a bureaucratic monster.
Just a thought about the FDIC and your bank account: There used to be something called the FSLIC, which got depleted when the Savings and Loans were deregulated andwent belly-upon risky investments in the 1980s. Depression Enters Phase Two
She arrived at 17, "extraordinary of my parents to let me", and after the Colonels took over Greece and her father's business "went belly-up", worked six days a week in the Mayfair Hotel as a room-service telephonist to pay for her O and A-levels: "It was rather fun," she says. Vicky Pryce: 'I thought we were a unit'
When I kill cockroaches using an aerosol spray, they invariably die belly-up.

A Don Knotts stereotype, he was the nation's youngest mayor in 1977 when Cleveland went belly-up because he wouldn't cut enough to balance the budget-thus giving the word "callow" a bad connotation …. Tom Roeser
Well, it's not like the Dallas area wasn't without the "largish" mid-size cons like these for a few years, after Bulldog Productions and, by extension, their Dallas Fantasy Fair cons went belly-up. Mid-Sized Comic Cons – What Impact Do They Have on the Comic Industry? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
the company went belly-up
In the past 10 years, the Alley has endured the triple asteroid strikes of an exploding Internet Bubble, the 9/11 terror attacks and the financial crisis. Thousands of firms went belly-up.
And I have a cohost, Sara Switzer, who's my writer - we'd been doing this show [SANDRAdio] on the Internet for nine months, until the company went belly-up.
If it all goes belly-up, Petra's the one who's going to have to deal with it on the spot. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The end result is usually a bodged job, endless delays or even unfinished work, but home owners have little or no comeback when things go belly-up.
Crops no longer grew, and the fish in the sea turned belly-up dead.