How To Use Upended In A Sentence
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the airplanes upended
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He upended his opponent.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
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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.
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Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.
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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
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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
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I was in Heaven, smelling everything, grinning from east to west with the salivary promise of an upended cornucopia.
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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
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Credit: Susan Weld who about 15 years ago gave a fascinating talk at Harvard on how she upended long-running paleographical debates over 2,000 year old bamboo strips from the Han dynasty of China using these tools.
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Beside the cot there was an upended wooden box, which also functioned as a table.
COLDHEART CANYON
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The basket was upended in her lap, and one of her bottles had not rolled but had instead emptied its contents into her pinafore, resulting in a spreading red stain and a sharp vinegary smell.
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Mr Ebener, along with other horrified spectators, was stunned when Mr Gloystein upended the magnum bottle and proceeded to pour it all over the head of Mr Ottmann.
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The tray of food upended, scattering its contents all over the wardress and the bedcover.
PAINT THE WIND
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Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.
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They sat on upended wooden boxes.
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The more Clinton upended the expectations of the boys on the bus, the more those boys reverted to Moose lodge–style japery toward her and her sex.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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Mr. Hatoyama capriciously upended the agreement last year, causing a flurry of diplomatic activity to try to right the plan.
Speed Dating With Japan's Leaders
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The groundskeeper has expanded his antimole system, a circle of plastic pop bottles sliced open on the sides and upended on sticks in the ground.
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He had upended the bottle when he slammed the door.
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bubbler" - style water fountains, with two - or five-gallon jugs upended over an electric dispenser/cooler.
Sustainablog
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The log upended there didn't split like it was suppose to and with an angry yank, Joe tried to pull the head free.
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Revealing, among other things, three large man-sized casks on deck, upended, with lids.
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She upended the bucket.
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Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.
The Tree is Farther to the Man
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He called 911 right after he'd stepped through his front door and tripped over the upended credenza.
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What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
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Cars and lorries lie upended like discarded toys.
The Sun
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Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.
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When it struck the second boot it clanged sonorously, like an old, dented gong, upended in a cellar.
BEHINDLINGS
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Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It's upended whole communities.
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The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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He was quite the mischief-maker; he once upended a can of spiders during Christmas Mass.
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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.
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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.
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She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.
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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
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The upended containers leaked, but they held together.
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So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.
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Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.