overturned

How To Use overturned In A Sentence

• At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
• Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
• They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
• Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.
• But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
• This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
• Many of the key assumptions used as the basis for safety claims have been overturned.
• On pretence of enjoying a free air, he mounted the box, and employed his elocution and generosity with such success, that the driver undertook to disable the diligence from proceeding beyond the town of Alost for that day; and, in consequence of his promise, gently overturned it when they were but a mile short of that baiting-place. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• Suddenly, a storm came and huge waves almost overturned his boat.
• We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.