How To Use Upside down In A Sentence

Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.
In other words, you can adjust the zoom and camera angle to be as far away or as close up as possible, and as upside down and round about as you like.
Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
And a younger, sprier Edwards fearlessly taunted his tormentor, U.S. Attorney John Volz, once rising to his feet for a toast in a French Quarter bar while trilling, “When my moods are over, and my time has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down, so Volz can kiss my ass.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
PBBs are known as endocrine disrupters: toxic chemicals that get inside the body and turn its hormonal systems upside down. TIME.com: Top Stories

The front room was tipped upside down. The Sun
When she came out with her infantile one-liner about turning Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan upside down and discovering that "the devil's in the details" 999 is 666 upside-down, geddit? GOP presidential economics debate in New Hampshire - as it happened
Save long stems and dry upside down for winter decoration. Times, Sunday Times
To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
Within the span of a few hours, my entire life had been flipped inside out and upside down.
Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy. PhotHunter: Downside Up « Mudpuddle
Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
The revelation in the mystery's denouement is so shocking and smart that the entire tale is turned upside down. The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard: Book summary
He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!” At a Welsh Wedding
As a vegetarian she had been shocked to see a dense forest of cured hams hanging upside down from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least.
As a vegetarian she had been shocked to see a dense forest of cured hams hanging upside down from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
He took the narrow bridge too quickly and the car crashed through the bridge and plunged into Poucha Pond, landing upside down under the water.
As reported on The Smoking Gun website, he was left not just hanging upside down from the lift, but also with his pants pulled down around his ankles ... bare-assed in the wind. Why I Don't Ski
No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis.
Nine months on, Mussolini himself was shot. His body was hanged upside down from a hook on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, where crowds gathered to spit at, kick and even shoot him again.
`I want to work in a circus with trained animals and a high trapeze, where I can swing upside down and show the whole world my britches. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
There was a mesmeric, far-away look in their eyes, even when upside down or with their legs wrapped around their head, that was more than just the effect of fantastically dilated pupils.
The male then took up guard, fanning the eggs constantly with his large pectorals and turning upside down to fan them as well.
This has also resulted in many folk beliefs and cultural traditions being turned upside down.
A wapiti lies upside down to the lower right.
But then, in my paintings, I started twisting branches upside down so that they became shapes lying into the landscape.
She looked up at him as he twisted the two streamers together and taped them in a sort of upside down McDonald's sign above the window.
I siphoned the white powder into the virulent dark chemical drink, replaced the top and turned it upside down, shook it gently. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
She said the song was a tribute to relatives and compatriots whose lives were turned upside down more than 70 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
On the table was an upside down pot and a duck tap dancing on it.
Then he hangs upside down like a bat until the ideas begin to flow again. The Sun
I didn't know that the goldfinch is the only one that eats upside down. A CHELSEA MORNING
Salter held the bag by the corners and shook it upside down.
In an undated picture, a mock-up of the A-12 spy plane sits perched upside down on a testing pylon at Area 51—part of radar tests to reveal revealed how visible, or invisible, the design was to radar.
You wouldn't hang a landscape upside down. Times, Sunday Times
I thought he was going to hold his paddle upside down for a minute and still win. The Sun
The puzzle solution can be found upside down at the bottom of the page. Times, Sunday Times
When I clicked on the light in the smallest room, one of our inch-long guests, as if resting on the wrong side of a hammock, was hanging upside down on a very low-slung web between the wall and the base of the toilet.
In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down.
Hold your head upside down and, with your fingers splayed, lift your hair and blast with the hairdryer. Times, Sunday Times
Use a volumizing product on wet hair, distributing through locks upside down and concentrating on the roots.
But you try doing the splits upside down with your head underwater and all the while keeping a smile on your face.
Whereas, false boustrophedon, alternate lines instead of having vertical orientation will curl around upside down, this also being called Schlangenschrift which means snake-writing. 2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews
This involves turning a conventional chemical company almost upside down.
Although bats roost upside down, they are incapable of hovering in this position. Times, Sunday Times
I noticed that an upside down dermestid beetle rights itself up by opening its wings and pushing itself up. Archive 2006-04-01
He finds his comfortable loneliness turned upside down when a Chinese American woman enters his world and challenges him to embrace life.
The dramatic rescue reconstructions include a hair-raising tale of a man hanging upside down from a plane. The Sun
It was a curious design, like a shortened, blunt spearhead hung upside down.
Here, computer-illiterate small-time capitalists can commit gaffes, like holding the mouse upside down, without being seen.
They are tenants who have hung around for 20 years - and their discovery turned their landlady's life upside down.
Suddenly she was brought to an upright position, blood rushed back down from her previously upside down head, before it came back up to flame her pale face.
It was difficult to use the word reformist to describe Mousavi, because Iran’s political landscape had turned upside down during his absence, and little was known about what ideas and resolve may have incubated in the meantime. Let the Swords Encircle Me
The container was upside down, so when the sides opened, the contents spilled out onto the carpet at the engineer's feet.
The roof is essentially inverted or turned upside down compared to the standard roofing.
I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through.
He's an influence on Coleman's own arcane ways of developing material like dipping into the so-called undertone series, which is basically the natural overtone series turned upside down. Steve Coleman: 'Harvesting' Funky, Brainy Jazz
The birds hold their bills upside down, using their lower bills and tongues to pump water through fringes on the top bills, which filters out microscopic mouthfuls of food.
One woman told reporters that officers had held her face down at gunpoint, interrogated her in front of her two young children and turned the residence ‘upside down’.
Living next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down.
My whole life has been turned upside down and I just don't know what to do or think anymore.
My life was turned upside down because of him. The Sun
This zygodactylous feet also enable the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot to hang upside down to reach otherwise inaccessible fruits or flowers.
Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
He turned the nuclear war strategy upside down when he announced that non-nuclear states could be targeted.
Life in America was turned upside down by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929.
For now, although I couldn't guess it, as I lay pampering myself with a little preserved jellied chicken and Rhine wine - of which Willy's store-chest yielded a fine abundance - that terrible day was approaching, that awful thunderclap of a day when the world turned upside down in a welter of powder-smoke and cannon-shot and steel, which no one who lived through it will ever forget. The Sky Writer
Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
I would get this really happy feeling when I was putting on my coat if I could look around and everything was nice: the glasses turned upside down and shining, the carpet speckless and smooth like a mowed lawn, the pillows on the bed fat and indented. We
Soon, you are in all the worry of what in Scotland we call a flitting: the house and all its belongings are turned upside down. The Recreations of a Country Parson
You can't turn the facts upside down.
The plane was flying upside down at high speed.
Dropping down a few branches, I hooked my legs over a branch and hung upside down, the way I did when I was a kid.
Some of the outside lights of the Piccadilly gardens are upside down, which means there is no waterproof protection.
Then he was suspended upside down from an overhead gantry for some minutes.
muumuu," a Hawaiian word that looks every bit as cool upside down. Undefined
She's used to having her life constantly turned upside down. Times, Sunday Times
Some spiders have another seeming superpower: an ability to adhere to sheer surfaces, even when upside down.
Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside down.
The glasses are perfectly symmetrical so the wearer can change the eye that is blocked by simply turning them upside down. Times, Sunday Times
[Return to the letter] 7 This postscript is written upside down above the salutation. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
No, but suppose you were to plant it upside down, with the plantule above and the radicle below; do you think it would grow that way? Willis the Pilot
The only thing that dislodged was her navy blue Swiss polka dot skirt which dropped over her upside down head revealing a tattered pair of grayish cotton underpants and some nylons that were tied in knots behind her knee.
For Emeruwa, life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984.
Oh, gentle reader, that would be the aforementioned Milo, screaming, held upside down with his head in the toilet receiving his twice monthly swirly from some gnarly looking bullies.
One of the actual saving energies in the place is speech, double-take, subversion, bouleversement, turning the thing upside down.
Both the material and metaphysical universes of the indigenous people were turned upside down.
But they was lying one on top the other, duck - and the little lad was beneath and upside down.
Hold your head upside down and, with your fingers splayed, lift your hair and blast with the hairdryer. Times, Sunday Times
After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again.
Brush any excess crumbs from the cake and turn the cake upside down. Times, Sunday Times
The distinctive feature of the Saturnalia was the inversion of ordinary relationships; the world was turned upside down, and the licence that prevailed, by dint of long usage and inviolable sentiment, imparted to the merry-making a rough and even immoral character. The Customs of Old England
It was crammed full of good ideas which you couldn't sensibly argue with, but they had been turned upside down.
As a vegetarian she had been shocked to see a dense forest of cured hams hanging upside down from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
They skip about on the thinnest of twigs, often hanging upside down to get at food. Times, Sunday Times
I did the ‘snowplow’ the whole way down the bunny slope (you know, when you invert your skis into an upside down v shape).
In English change-ringing the bell may be balanced upside down and swung through a full circle, the moment of its sounding being controlled by the ringer.
They skip about on the thinnest of twigs, often hanging upside down to get at food. Times, Sunday Times
Although bats roost upside down, they are incapable of hovering in this position. Times, Sunday Times
Some very knowledgable people say that most contemporary bodyboards for sale today ride faster when ridden upside down and backwards.
It states that vertebrate and annelid CNS are of common descent and vertebrates have turned themselves upside down throughout the course of evolution. April 20th, 2007
I siphoned the white powder into the virulent dark chemical drink, replaced the top and turned it upside down, shook it gently. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Spin does not test your bravery like speed, but it can turn batsmen inside out and upside down with anxiety and trepidation. The Sun
He evolved a technique of standing the bottles upside down so the sediment settled against the cork, and then freezing the neck so that a plug of frozen sediment could be fired out by a quick opening and then recorking the bottle.
Then you turn the toy upside down and realize you have another 30 minutes to go before you can untwist those damn industrial twist ties (created by satan). Peeved: A Story of Pet Peeves « Bored Mommy
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (Printed on bottom of the box. ) Do not turn upside down.
Although the youngster was wearing a lifebelt, she had become stuck under the water after turning upside down.
Hanging upside down, I found the doors had been jammed by the partly collapsed roof. Times, Sunday Times
Turn one sponge upside down so the flat surface is facing upwards. Times, Sunday Times
Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
Now, no rooster can fly upside down, no matter what else he can do, so that one came flippity-flop down into the water ker-splash-ker-sposh; and one more besides! Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
Each probably already demanding to be the one to hand up the traditional Holy Tax-Inspector Immersion Day decorations, such as the withered bunch of daffodils hung upside down from the mantelpiece, the buttered goat in the hallway, the precise traditional arrangement of liquorice allsorts on the top surface of the DVD Player. Archive 2009-05-01
The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
After all that unpleasantry Saber had endured, how dare anyone presume to think they knew him backwards, frontwards, upside down and sideways?
Say it Upside Down: If you're athletically inclined, take your partner to a park and hang upside down from the monkey bars and say "Hey! I love you even when I'm upside down!
New approaches to marketing turn old practices upside down.
She has also battled personality problems since the movie turned her life upside down. The Sun
Save long stems and dry upside down for winter decoration. Times, Sunday Times
Living next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down.
Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem, and begins to pupate.
It is a wonderful place, that jungle, with its tangled trunks and vines and its green foliage swimming in sifted sunlight; with its palms, palmettoes, ferns, and climbing morning-glories, its banana trees, gnarled rubber banyans, and wild mangoes -- which are like trees growing upside down, digging their spreading branches into the ground. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
West, Vancouver, fabricated the new bridge sections upside down and welded orthotropic troughs to the 16.8-m-wide deck plates.
Sometimes they lose their balances and pop upside down like bobbers which is fun and helps the learning experience.
Although, the famous anamorphosis of the skull in the foreground of the London painting is a surpassing paradox, it carries essentially the same message of a world turned upside down as Henry Patensen's unsettling gaze.
There the fool enjoyed special license to ridicule pretense and turn upside down social rituals and solemnities, including the dignity of the king himself.
And the shaky camerawork only serves to emphasise the shock of a world turned upside down. Times, Sunday Times
“And so mine well may,” said Desborough, “ay, and overturned too, since my bed last night was turned upside down, and I was placed for ten minutes heels uppermost, and head downmost, like a bullock going to be shod.” Woodstock
That same poll also depicted a city whose demographics had been turned upside down.
They remind you that life is precarious and your world can turn upside down from one moment to the next. Times, Sunday Times
They part to reveal a man hanging upside down from a wall upstage, and a woman, standing in a spotlight down stage, reaching out to him.
Just ask the three women in Yorkshire who had a miraculous escape when their car landed upside down after hitting a hole. The Sun
When she felt a hempen rope digging into her right ankle, she accepted that she was indeed caught upside down in a rope snare, swinging from the branch of a tree. Demon From The Dark
Turn one sponge upside down so the flat surface is facing upwards. Times, Sunday Times
We could see some of them which had toppled over and rolled down the precipitous slopes and remained upside down at most nauseating angles.
As impressive as the agility of the Na'vi is, in trees the aliens, who can climb vertical and upside down AT SPEED, would easily outclass them. How Would The Na’vi Of ‘Avatar’ Stack Up Against James Cameron’s Other Creatures? » MTV Movies Blog
In the comedy, a co-dependent father and his teenage daughter's relationship is turned upside down when they are put together in a unique situation. Jim Belushi Returning to ABC in New Comedy
He turned the kitbag upside down and tipped its contents out on to the linoleum. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
A unique feature are the pillars on the front stoep: they are upside down cannon barrels, painted white.
Taking a small charcoal depiction of a bike from his sketch pad, he turned it upside down and copied it this way onto the wall.
Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers.
In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light.
She said the song was a tribute to relatives and compatriots whose lives were turned upside down more than 70 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Will changes in tournament format and a move to the sport condition turn your regular game upside down?
Riders scream as the Power Surge turns them upside down during the Nederland Heritage Festival in Nederland on Saturday, March 17, 2007. Nederland Power Surge
The lid, turned upside down, served as a coffee table.
A servant brought a brass basin, which was like an immense wash-bowl with a cullender in it turned upside down: we washed our hands over this, water being poured over them from a large coffee-pot (I should call it) with an unusually long nose, and wiped our hands on handsome towels embroidered at the ends with gold thread. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
The offending Army vehicle - a large personnel carrier, the army equivalent to the police crocodile, called a "puma" - was lying upside down. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
There was Schick by the pond upside down, Austen by the apple tree, his cowlick feather still sticking out. WHITE LIES
Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
The canoe floated upside down on the lake.
A Gecko can support the equivalent of 90 pounds while hanging upside down.
In the northeast corner of the tomb was a small votive vessel filled with ocher, next to it more ocher, a stone pestle, and three objects made from the metacarpals of animals; in the northwest corner archaeologists found a bronze knife and a long bronze awl broken in half; in the southwest corner were two vessels covered with stone lids; and in the southeast corner, archaeologists were surprised to find a censer of a type commonly found in later so-called catacomb burials that had been placed upside down. Caucasus Kurgan Cache
Lay your bookmark upside down very carefully on one edge of the contact paper so you can fold over the rest of it on the back of the bookmark.
The man who can no longer make a living, who might depend on his wife's earnings, can watch Hollywood sexpots on pirated videos and begin to think the world has been turned upside down.
He grabs her off her horse and places her upside down across his lap.
We would be made to do all the usual humiliating routines of trying to climb the ropes, balance on beams, hang upside down on the wall bars and on occasion, vault over a ‘horse’ or ‘buck’.
They are as cunning as sheitan, your lordship, but I made the man turn the pail upside down and shake it. Behind the Bungalow
I turned the apartment upside down but I couldn't find those photos.
Meantime his affairs at home went upside down, and his two brothers had a wretched time, where his first boutade was to kick both their wives one morning out of doors, and his own too, and in their stead gave orders to pick up the first three strollers could be met with in the streets. A Tale of a Tub
Tear out pictures from in-flight magazines, place them upside down in front of you and play hunt the apple or jumbo jet. Times, Sunday Times
It is this relationship that has turned my life upside down - in a good way. Times, Sunday Times
Like little log cabins turned upside down. A Plague of Angels
The glasses are perfectly symmetrical so the wearer can change the eye that is blocked by simply turning them upside down. Times, Sunday Times
The static of the erratic fanatic romantic manic-depressive: upside down, impulsive, regressive. Anatomy of a Breakdown
When 1100/11-87s and 870s won't feed a round from the magazine tube, the culprit is almost always a magazine plug that has been installed upside down (the small end should point down toward the trigger). Remington Reps Stay on their Toes
They part to reveal a man hanging upside down from a wall upstage, and a woman, standing in a spotlight down stage, reaching out to him.
I know, upside down with a head full of snot is not the most appealing thing. Head Cold Asana « martinis & mantras
The painting was hung upside down.
Once in the house of custom, on the hither side of the cutting edge, as it were, the scene appears upside down, turned on its head.
The rest of the letter is interlined, as Brown says, "upside down. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
He didn't look at the instructions and put the document in upside down… doh!
Lithe as a monkey, he climbed across a tree branch, and hooked his legs over the branch, hanging upside down and swinging back and forth.
The upside down proviso is that you shouldn’t give property if it would cause harm to another property owner: “must not in any way affect the scope of any copyright protection in that preexisting material.” Archive 2009-08-01
Turning the world upside down is a dangerous, hubristic aim.
But she is set to have her world turned upside down by her jailbird dad 's return over the summer. The Sun
In a few days her life was turned upside down. Times, Sunday Times
The puzzle solution can be found upside down at the bottom of the page. Times, Sunday Times
The musclemen who balance each other upside down on their shoulders; the acrobat who spins inside a hoop; the contortionist packed into a suitcase: these are the things that draw the audience applause.
To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
Then he hangs upside down like a bat until the ideas begin to flow again. The Sun
At the Casino, beautifully costumed, staged, chorused, in a fair way to becoming what is called an artiste, she is far from that unknown chorus girl, selected by Miguel Covarrubias, who a few summers ago made her Paris debut carried in upside down "à poil," and doing the split. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
When resting your hat on a table, rest it on its crown (upside down), rather than its brim.
That's the definitive movie of the British public schools, which features the 'twirly'. this also happened in Canton at our middle school, when a friend of my grandson's who had committed the great crime of moving in from another town was turned upside down in a toilet, and the toilet was flushed. WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
This contrivance is far simpler than a dip-candle, the arachis is broken off as it chars, and, when the lamp dims, turning it upside down causes a fresh flow of oil. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The squeezer can be used combined with the pitcher, in which the citrus fruit can be thoroughly squeezed; and then the juice can be served immediately or it can be kept in the pitcher until breakfast time, for this the squeezer is placed upside down and the pitcher is covered with its lid. Boing Boing
They're intended to hold tapers, but apparently putting them upside down is The Hottest Trend in home candle fashions.
And the shaky camerawork only serves to emphasise the immediacy and shock of a world turned upside down. Times, Sunday Times
With the bike upside down, clamp the top of the seatpost into a large bench vise that is bolted to a very secure workbench.
On the first sheet, Brown has interlined, upside down, the third page of his letter. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
Wooden carvings of birds hang upside down from a set of wires stretched along the low ceiling.
Brush any excess crumbs from the cake and turn the cake upside down. Times, Sunday Times
One position, known as "cannonball," entails hugging the knees to the chest and swinging upside down in arcs. Headstands With the Greatest of Ease
Family comedy about a musician whose life is turned upside down by a trio of singing rodents. The Sun
To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
The distressed bird of prey was hanging upside down after leather straps on its legs became wound round a branch. The Sun
This leaflet is A3, folded in to three, which is why it appears to have part printed upside down. Archive 2009-06-01
“Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba — “and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.” Ivanhoe

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