inverted

How To Use inverted In A Sentence

• The strokes swum on the back include back stroke or back crawl, elementary backstroke, inverted breaststroke, inverted butterfly, back double trudgen, flutter back finning and feet first swimming.
• V. iii.22 (518,6) my way of life/Is fall'n into the sear] As there is no relation between the _way of life_, and _fallen into the sear_, I am inclined to think that the W is only an M inverted, and that it was originally written, Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
• In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits. This week's new exhibitions
• It is an inverted fable, filled with "animalized" humans. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Press the pleats with the stitching centred over the tapes to form two inverted pleats on the right side of the blind. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
• Anyway, today we made a pistachio dacquoise (remember that a dacquoise is a meringue--whipped egg whites--with sugar and nut flour(s) folded into it), an apricot-passion-fruit gelee, some apricot glaze, two sablee dough shells (we didn't get to do those, as the only sablee dough left was too soft to work with, so we'll do it tomorrow), and each of us made an inverted puff pastry recipe and put four turns in the dough. Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
• Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
• In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, _a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself_. Evolution créatrice. English
• The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
• But these tedious arguments have more to do with inverted snobbery than progressive values. Times, Sunday Times