How To Use Upend In A Sentence

  • The annexe has the feel of a private house with a wood fire and stupendous views of the temples of Baalbek.
  • Aviation regulators closed roughly 80% of European airspace during the Easter holiday, stranding millions of people and upending global commerce. Sky Wars: Europe Battles to Erase Borders in the Air
  • The Italian was quite stupendous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death. Archive 2008-02-01
  • They're stupendously boring goody-goodies who are permanently belting out power ballads. The Sun
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • Next to that outcome, Pyrrhus won a stupendous triumph. Russia
  • This is the first bike that will exploit the Renovatio's frameless concept: The 132-cubic-inch, S&S-built engine is a load-bearing structural element, suspended like a girder between the stupendous front engine mount and rear pivot. The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles
  • There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The government now is looking at unprecedented public-sector layoffs and cuts in civil-service perks, steps that could reshape Greek political culture by upending decades of cozy ties between the ruling Socialist party and a core constituency. Greek Officials Scramble to Find More Cuts
  • She will lampoon "Cameron's stupendously inane soundbite about a security fightback being followed by a social fightback" and claim the prime minister's vision for dealing with socially excluded people is "the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate. Green party leader seeks to woo Liberal Democrats
  • It's a pretty salad that tastes as stupendous as it looks; perfect summer fork food. Times, Sunday Times
  • The log upended there didn't split like it was suppose to and with an angry yank, Joe tried to pull the head free.
  • Revealing, among other things, three large man-sized casks on deck, upended, with lids.
  • An algorithm purporting to match what is presumed to be operating in a human brain would need to be a stupendous thing.
  • Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
  • He wrote it after a stupendously argumentative and productive life as a scholar and writer and as that cruel disease, ALS, was closing in upon him. Twelve Months of Reading
  • Now, political observers say, there's little chance the embattled congressman will pursue Gracie Mansion, upending the field of hopefuls looking to replace Mr. Bloomberg. Weiner Upends Mayoral Field
  • She upended the bucket.
  • It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • What if we also consider that fantasy greatly outsells sf (and by your broader definition that would presumably include YA, horror, and alternative history, stupendously outsells it)? Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
  • Will upending the old way of searching for the Dalai Lama's incarnation, in which priests search for omens, portents and meteorological signs, undermine the legitimacy of his successor?
  • A short climb through the castle brings me to the other side of these windows - and stupendous views over the surrounding mountains. Times, Sunday Times
  • By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.
  • The republican party has proven over and over that there main agenda is to upend Obama at the expense of the American people. National Republicans preparing to back Rubio
  • He ran up stupendous debts through his extravagant lifestyle.
  • A stupendous drawing of Venus rising by Rubens, 30 artworks by Walter Sickert and a poignant note written by Gandhi that was his tacit approval for Indian partition are among a dozen artworks and archives now in the possession of the nation because of the 101-year-old Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu scheme brings a dozen new gifts to the nation
  • A puckish irreverence, calculated to upend the cliché of the tortured master builder, is integral to his impressive resume. Building a Better Future
  • When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings, do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.
  • An inspired partnership, a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • It contains a stupendous object called BL Lacerta, which is known as a "blazar", a distant galaxy being torn apart by a super-sized black hole. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • Many a politician has built a ministerial career on making otherwise contentious subjects stupendously boring. How local government cuts will damage the NHS
  • Giap was a fine general but he had great troops willing and apparently eager to sustain stupendous hardships for long long periods, and a country behind him in which every citizen worked in essence 12 hours a day 7 days a week for 25 years, for no pay. Matthew Yglesias » Blockbuster
  • Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray. The Tree is Farther to the Man
  • He called 911 right after he'd stepped through his front door and tripped over the upended credenza.
  • It looks stupendous served from a large, shallow bowl with a generous garnish of chopped parsley and lightly cooked green beans. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have language skills, I'm pedantic to stupendous heights, computer literate and I can fire and strip a pistol.
  • Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
  • A friend and I ordered one on a recent visit, then watched the bartender deftly hoist and upend four bottles at once — rum, gin, vodka, and blue Curaçao — letting loose long strands of colorful liquid, as if from the udder of a magical cow. Supersized Cocktails
  • Rather than acknowledge that this is what happened; that certain stupendously wrong ideas gained widespread adherence in the two years after 9/11, there’s been an enormous willingness to believe that, hey, no, everything’s fine, it’s just that Paul Bremer and Donald Rumsfeld are really dumb. Matthew Yglesias » Strange New Respect
  • A stupendous cinema epic, reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl, might merely seem ridiculous.
  • If asked to name stupendously amazing things in space, most people would probably pick black holes. American Scientist Online
  • The work is both a stupendously tasteless joke and a massive painting with a cat's face at the top of the middle canvas.
  • I thought it was a stupendous idea - I still do - but I haven't heard anything more about it.
  • It's a resonant place with a most stupendous view. Times, Sunday Times
  • The full-scale skeletal model unveiled at the end of the film shows a stupendous creature in all its glory. Times, Sunday Times
  • I noticed out the window an absolutely stupendous view over Westminster.
  • What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
  • My impression of it was quite vivid enough without that, and the vision of the Colosseum remained, and still remains, the immense skeleton of the stupendous form stripped of all integumental charm and broken down half one side of its vast oval, so that wellnigh a quarter of the structural bones are gone. Roman Holidays, and Others
  • However, that presence, stupendous mystery as it was, was in itself no guarantee of benefit, either to celebrant or congregation.
  • Cars and lorries lie upended like discarded toys. The Sun
  • My greatest discovery on this front has been Vida Vida's stupendous leather weekend bag, aka the nonpareil of luggagery £195, www.vidavida.co.uk . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • But a win by Mr. Gingrich would upend the perception that Mr. Romney is the inevitable GOP nominee. Gingrich Wins in South Carolina, Networks Say
  • To paraphrase: When I win my vroom-car races, our annoyingly short national anthem means that my period of standing up on a big platform, bathed in the love of millions of people goggling at how stupendously great I am, is limited to only 30 seconds or so. So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
  • She heads a classy cast, with soprano Eglise Gutierrez in the ditsy coloratura role of Fairy Godmother and the mezzo Alice Coote in rapturous, unblemished voice, a stupendous Prince Charming. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
  • Here's a trade secret that could get this column suspended from journalism's equivalent of the Magic Circle: there is a way to be stupendously well informed without reading absolutely everything.
  • Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.
  • When it struck the second boot it clanged sonorously, like an old, dented gong, upended in a cellar. BEHINDLINGS
  • Most recently, he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston, Montana, home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.
  • But: What was exceptional is that precisely a protruding 'massif' of a hog was dancing in the innersanctum sanctorumof the museum, a great and stupendously rotund animal was actually attempting to, or so it seemed to Wong, preform a pirouette in the manner of one of Degas 'whores. Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)
  • Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It's upended whole communities.
  • There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Dr. Paul Cravath of the University of Hawaii elegantly captured the essence of the “devata” when he wrote, “There, with stupendous variety, the Feminine achieved a new level of expression unsurpassed at any time in Asian sculpture.” Review: Costumes and Ornaments after the Devata of Angkor Wat | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
  • The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.
  • This, of course, was heavier still, though if he had to he could upend it -- at the risk of more noise. DOUBLE DECEIT
  • With The Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears created a new kind of masterwork-a historical novel constructed intricately to work like clockwork, which glides sequentially from one subjective narrator to another, so that each section unveils new explanations that upend the previous narrator's picture of the characters 'motivations and actions. The Inverse Square Blog
  • I'm not saying real wizards have a problem with the gay thing - we're stupendously open-minded toward the alternative sexualities.
  • bubbler" - style water fountains, with two - or five-gallon jugs upended over an electric dispenser/cooler. Sustainablog
  • The deal, which allowed Mittal to pay himself a £1.1 billion dividend, also shone a light on his stupendous wealth.
  • Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria. Europe's Problem Is Not Germany's High Productivity
  • It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth.
  • The alloted time, during which so stupendous an undertaking is to be consummated, is short. Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand
  • Mr. Chu used his opening testimony to remind the committee that his department is backing, with billions, no fewer than 38 stupendously large renewable projects which are in addition to the 5,000 awards, totaling $34 billion, it has made via its stimulus grant program, and dozens of other corporate handouts via its regular budget. Steven Chu, Energy CEO
  • It is for no other reason than the empire's need to engage in a stupendous demonstration of its might.
  • Lipsey says the Treasury can claim credit for the stupendous UK policy success of the last two decades - privatisation.
  • She talks about how modern medicine upended religion and ritual and set us on a new path toward pain not as mystery but as conquerable enemy. Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too
  • Certo aiuta che ho un ufficio tutto mio, tutti sono molto gentili e cordiali, il posto e' davvero stupendo tutta una foresta intorno, begli alberi, tanto sole, e il mio mentore/capo sembra molto disponibile e interessato a quello che faccio. Archive 2008-11-01
  • The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended. The Munro Doctrine of Humor
  • The master bedroom has an en suite and a window seat with stupendous views. Times, Sunday Times
  • Upended, paneled inside and out with mirrors that made its bulk disappear, and outfitted with two bare bulbs at the apex, it had an intentionally incommodious opening the size of a small door.
  • Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.
  • stupendous demand
  • Into the face of this cone had been carved a stupendous multilevel castlelike structure. THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
  • So long as it prevails the show is thrilling and stupendous; the moment it fails the show is a dull and dirty farce.
  • It's a resonant place with a most stupendous view. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
  • He was quite the mischief-maker; he once upended a can of spiders during Christmas Mass.
  • But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin, and he said that when the binmen did finally arrive they simply upended his green bin in to his black bin before taking it off to landfill.
  • The clock can circumrotate 360 degrees and the LCD time display will never upend.
  • I turned to fetch milk from the fridge and in the process managed to upend the iron, which promptly headed for the floor and landed with a crash, rendering it somewhat ‘dismantled’ and burning the floor just for good measure.
  • The recent history of butterflies in this country has been of overall and sometimes catastrophic decline, alongside local and quite stupendous success. Times, Sunday Times
  • The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
  • His poll numbers in the role have gone from being "stupendous" -- the description of one of his Labor opponents -- to just "very good". The Australian | News |
  • As against these, the stupendous increase in the destructiveness of air power has been of limited utility in guerrilla war.
  • We drive along Gibson Reservoir Road—a route bordered by brown-eyed Susans and the Sun River—past huge, upended slabs that look as if giants had a rock fight.
  • The soup ends up an autumnal russet colour, stupendous with a garnish of diced avocado, lime and coriander. Times, Sunday Times
  • Harder to estimate is how irrational fears could upend those calculations. Panic Could Do More Damage to Global Growth than Japan's Earthquake
  • So stupendous is the potential, it could transform global energy politics and economics. Americans (Sort of) Fracking
  • Here the view was dominated by a stupendous skyscape, rather like the fanciful ones on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
  • A small group of white girls from stupendously troubled families (the kids are described as "cherubic" for maximum effect) began meeting in one of the girls 'houses after school — and sometimes in a motel room — to do drugs and service two groups of rough trade, one of local white boys, the other of African-American boys (a recent prison inmate among them) who commuted from a different part of the county to avail themselves of the girls. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
  • By the time we got to the grand final it was just stupendous.
  • She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.
  • The Manhattan Project represented the most stupendous scientific effort in history. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • So it turns out this was not so much ‘difficult’ as stupendously easy.
  • We were gliding underneath a dead tree when an anhinga, unseen sunning itself on the limb above us, startled and took off with a stupendous flapping of wings. I DEFINE LOVE AS THINKING WELL ABOUT SOMEONE
  • It's a pretty salad that tastes as stupendous as it looks; perfect summer fork food. Times, Sunday Times
  • stupendously ignorant people
  • Jonson made his money from masques, which were stupendously expensive to put on at court.
  • This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war, and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.
  • Acclaimed "La Stupenda,"– "the Stupendous One"– during a career spanning more than four decades, Sutherland was known in the opera world as an "anti-diva" diva whose warm vibrant sound and subtle coloring helped revitalize the school of early 19th-century Italian opera known as bel canto. Joan Sutherland Dies: Famed Soprano Dead At 83
  • Ceylon, of the remains of what may correctly be termed stupendous works; and the date of the construction of which, as regards India, is in many cases prehistoric. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
  • The trouble is that bankers lend the stupendous amounts of money involved only in return for a very low risk. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fireworks were stupendous - and so was the ocean of humanity viewing them.
  • The report finds that the cost of these disparities is stupendous.
  • Platonov, however, is hardly a conventionally realistic writer, since the nature of the post-Revolutionary world is that history has ended and reality has been upended, replaced by a heady brew of utopian anticipations and nightmarish premonitions. Deals
  • But then it is _all_ they can do -- it is the last card and the _last_ man, and if we make one stupendous effort, we must inevitably crush it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
  • Myself, I'm mostly haunted by retrospectively realising that what made perfect sense at the time was actually stupendously wrong and/or offensive and/or thoughtless.
  • That is an undeniable truth with stupendously large bodies of study to support it.
  • The courts, which believe that they are the only ones that get to reverse court decisions, might also prove hostile to the idea of upending Brand X on the mere promise of a "good reason. CNET News.com
  • His lordship was much amused by this freshwater voyage; and viewed with delight the stupendous rocks of basaltes through which the The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
  • Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
  • The philosophical mind would most naturally associate with it the idea of stupendous magnetic power. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces
  • Most of them have balconies, too, and on a clear night you will be zipping back and forth between the stupendous sight of the Matterhorn and the snug reassurance of your fireplace.
  • There was only the vast upcurve of the top-chords and the stupendous down-curve of the bottom-chords and the line between that stood for the foreshortened sixteen hundred feet of bridge-floor level extending from the north shore to the swaying tip of that unanchored north third of the central span. Out of the Primitive
  • Departing Justice David H. Souter sided with the minority in this case, expressing dismay in his dissent and suggesting the decision could "upend," said the Times, the federal civil litigation system. Republic Broadcasting Network
  • The upended containers leaked, but they held together.
  • Its current owner removed the tarry dirt to reveal a stupendous new Titian.
  • The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.
  • Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.
  • A resounding cheer went up from the stupendous mass of people that was streaming through the gates into Hyde Park.
  • Sitting on an upended barrel in front of a still-closed ironmonger's shop, Nynaeve warmed her hands under her arms and surveyed her army. The Great Hunt
  • By walking perhaps twenty yards further there's a stupendous view over the Bristol Channel.
  • He upended his opponent.
  • This stupendous sum has failed spectacularly to improve the lot of its intended beneficiaries.
  • The emergence of this cohort of high-earning young women and the increasing number of female breadwinners are transforming gender relationships, upending patterns of matchmaking, marriage and motherhood, creating a new conflict between the sexes, redefining the word "breadwinner" and inspiring tracts on the leveling of men's roles. NYT > Home Page
  • But while that triangular confrontation was stupendously dramatic, the ex-president left with a token fine which was quashed on appeal.
  • What elevates "Victim" above the preachy is the director's sustained upending of cinematic convention and the film's wealth of strong performances in roles large and small—starting with affecting portrayals by Bogarde and Sylvia Syms, as his patient but conflicted wife. Lessons Without Lectures
  • Efforts which might fairly be described as stupendous were put forth by the advocates of Kultur to win, if not the approval, at least the strict neutrality of Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
  • The main winding is a Lotus-O-Deltoid type placed in panamdermic semi-boloid slots of the stator with every seventh conductor connected by a non-reversible trunion pipe to the differential girdle spring on the upend of the gram meters. Need a Milford Trenyan?
  • I've been a guest at a few of these and they are plain stupendous. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
  • The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
  • His lordship was much amused by this freshwater voyage; and viewed with delight the stupendous rocks of basaltes through which the Elbe here securely wound it's way, amidst scenes of such impressive grandeur. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
  • This is a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge THE CHILDREN
  • When he reached zugzwang, he resisted the urge to upend the chess board. Thinly Sliced Raw Fish
  • Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person. Big Girls Don’t Cry
  • Nay, it needs no such stupendous cataclysm to depeople this uneasy orb. A Cynic Looks at Life
  • Almost worse, he says, was the insult of troops upending ashtrays, of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them, and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.
  • The Venice we see here, through the prism of Scottish fantasies, is a fabled city of delight, that glass goblet as stupendous as a Titian.
  • Sitting on an upended barrel in front of a still-closed ironmonger's shop, Nynaeve warmed her hands under her arms and surveyed her army. The Great Hunt
  • El cajon san diego the gnetophytina up for an psychologically extortionately impounding, add dakoity by prophylaxis the tip of your protoplast and stupendously nepheline his airwave clarion your way talkatively to his cooper. Rational Review
  • NEW YORK (CNNMoney. com) - It is one of the touchiest issues in the health care debate: Would a government-run health plan upend the employer-based health insurance system used by 160 million Americans? Health care: Will 'pay or play' chase employers away?
  • Instead, they risked being upended by the many people who have felt for some years that there is a lot of largesse sloshing around the nation which has not come their way.
  • We have two buildings by that architect here in town; one is a rip-off of an old Roman temple in France - er, Gaul - and the other is a stupendously bad monolith on Washington Avenue.
  • From the survivors and loved ones of the devastating Japanese and Christchurch earthquakes; to liberated Tunisian and Egyptian citizens; to a celebrity who has upended every traditional public relations rule, the Twittersphere has ignited as a lifeline, a peaceful revolution mobilizer, and a digital megaphone. Beverly Macy: #Winning With Real-Time Social Media: Disaster Relief, Hashtag Revolutions, and Celebrity Twitter Rants Through the Now Lens
  • The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè. In the Tennessee mountains,
  • If, indeed, here and there, one of the older naturalists still disputes, the foundation on which they rest, or demands proofs which are wanting (as happened a few weeks ago on the part of a famous German pathologist at the Anthropological Congress in Moscow), he only shows by this that he has remained a stranger to the stupendous advances of recent biology, and above all of anthropogeny. Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science
  • Its hilltop position gives stupendous views to the dramatic skyline of the National Park. Times, Sunday Times
  • What a stupendous building, built in thanksgiving for success in war.
  • One of the best ways is to drill ice cores, often stupendously long ones.
  • The angel goes on to foretell the building of "una stupenda, ne più veduta Città;" but the fable is hardly ingenious enough to deserve farther relation. Stones of Venice [introductions]
  • There is a rumor that the very first games were played with cigar box lids for paddles, carved champagne corks for balls, and a row of upended books for a divider in the center of the court.
  • Called “La Stupenda,” she combined the heft of a Wagnerian singer with the agility and upper register of a coloratura soprano, leading to powerful interpretations of great bel canto roles that had lain dormant for decades -- following in the wake of Maria Callas, who had spearheaded their initial revival. Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
  • a stupendous field of grass
  • What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
  • An inspired partnership, a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is designing private houses of stupendous but well-tempered poshness in Kensington and Oxfordshire. David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
  • However, the great actor Patrick Stewart manages somehow to remain self-respecting, even when Portia, stupendously performed by Susannah Fielding, spits out "Jew!" at him with heartfelt venom. Recurring Daydreams
  • It was simply the thirteen states, through their delegates in Congress, dealing with the unoccupied national domain as if it were the common land or folkland of a stupendous township. The Critical Period of American History
  • Is not ---- 's last novel a better antidote against melancholy, stupendously absurd as it is, than foalfoot or plantain, featherfew or savin, agrimony or saxifrage, or any other herb in old Robert Burton's pharmacopoeia? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
  • That, as they say, is a story, and in "Baby It's You!" it's told to the accompaniment of slick cover versions of the Shirelles' greatest hits, sung stupendously well by Erica Ash, Kyra Da Costa, Crystal Starr Knighton and Christina Sajous. The Invisible Girls
  • What little the first group was able to accomplish, it accomplished in the face of really stupendous odds.
  • He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
  • But none of those truths should diminish the power of last weekend's stupendous events.
  • One artistic work that stupendously manages this neat feat of perspective is the musical Cabaret, currently on the boards of the Citadel Theatre.
  • Cleverly designed, a wraparound "gamepad" for Apple's iPhone or iPad could upend the portable games market by stealth-catapulting the iPhone into direct competition with the DS and PSP. Macworld UK News
  • Its hilltop position gives stupendous views to the dramatic skyline of the National Park. Times, Sunday Times
  • What has been ‘produced’ since 1970 is a stupendous reduction that no cop or police roundsman doing Sunday morning ‘intrusions’ at the homes of the bereaved in 1970 would have thought possible.
  • It's really one of the most atrociously written of HPL's stories, and a testament to how stupendously his writing improved from the early 1920s to the early and mid-1930s. One of those WoW things.
  • He was a man of stupendous stamina and energy.
  • In 2006, Marga Gomez combined the stories about her parents and mounted Los Big Names, a tell-all memoir-logue about her surreal upbringing by stupendously narcissistic parents. Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended
  • The Obama campaign’s use of the Internet has been cited as playing a large role in upending how presidential races are fought. How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I upended the pumpkin and cut the bottom out of it, then put it outside on our backdeck, over the decklight, sparing us the need to use a candle or a flashlight to light him up.
  • Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.
  • I found a trash receptacle under the red eucalyptus, rolled it to the toyon, upended it, held onto the tree, and climbed on top. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • Alas for Adolf, war broke out in 1939 before any Nazi faithful holidayed there, and after a spell housing East German soldiers during the cold war, the stupendously ugly set of buildings were left to rot for 20 years. Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd
  • At the conclusion of the event, attendees will exchange their Sergio Day gifts as they enjoy the stupendous Sergio Aragonés fireworks display.
  • If, then, we limit the application of the term Christendom to this, its most authentic expression, the unity of Christendom is not a lost ideal to be recovered, but a stupendous reality which has always been in stable possession. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • A holiday ice-skating rink in a downtown park is illustrative of Mr. Segarra's attempts to lure new businesses and residents to the city center and upend the perception of a city in decline. Tall Order for Hartford Mayor
  • {Pring Street U#lum More than anything, with stupendous size, in butch-looking Tilly Endurables for Women, and tough-girl goatee, proof certainly against any over-the-counter depilatory, that is what she was A bully, a thug .... Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
  • Davies says of all the ideas he reviews: "In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate: a unique universe that just happens to permit life by a fluke; a stupendous number of alternative parallel universes that exist for no reason; a preexisting God who is somehow self-explanatory; or a self-creating, self-explaining self-understanding unioverse-with-observers, entailing backward causation and teleology." page 259. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
  • From here the view over the city, the old port and the old town, down to the sea are stupendous.
  • Another man came to help, and together they unloaded the barrels-plainly heavy-from the mule, and upended them into the kettle, one at a time, with a great whoosh of pungent yellowish pinesap. Drums of Autumn
  • This is a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The master bedroom has an en suite and a window seat with stupendous views. Times, Sunday Times
  • If so be, there is indeed no intelligence elsewhere; and we must be forced to confess, that this stupendous universe, with all the various bodies contained therein -- equally amazing, whether we consider their magnitude or number, whatever their use, whatever their order -- _all_ have been produced, not by _intelligence_, but _chance_! Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • My only crit is that Stupendous Man would kick Superman in the ass! and for this reason should be replaced! Reader Makes Periodic Table Of Superheroics - Geekologie
  • Now that the death of its leading investor has rendered Countess Hanna Glawari stupendously wealthy, it is imperative that her money remains in the country. The Merry Widow – review
  • New economic problems could "upend" the last leg of the presidential Blogrunner

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy