How To Use Upside 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.
The image is upside-down and reversed left-to-right.
It has a warmer feel, thanks to teal walls, blonde wood and large light fixtures like softly glowing upside-down umbrellas.
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

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If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
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
an upside-down cake
The upside of this setup is that it can accept either balanced or unbalanced signal input.
Upside The location is convenient and set to become more so. Times, Sunday Times
PBBs are known as endocrine disrupters: toxic chemicals that get inside the body and turn its hormonal systems upside down. TIME.com: Top Stories
I swear that girl is going to make me smack her upside her head one of these days.
The front room was tipped upside down. The Sun
Well it is, but on the upside, you see a lot of these farmers driving around in gold Cadillacs and hanging around chicks with big boobies.
It deserves nothing more than a kick in the pants and Granma's whap upside the head for outrageous juvenile snottery. Why not engage with me instead of trying to make me into your enemy?
Rich: Yes, if he's cruel, the upside is that he's unsentimental, which is refreshing. Houses Collide: Game of Thrones Discussion — All's Well That Ends With Dragons
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
She often rocks, sways, twirls, jumps, climbs, leaps, gyrates and gets into upside-down positions.
The other upside was that any school official who called my house to ask why I was tardy got assurances from ‘my mom’ that it was all her fault.
Save long stems and dry upside down for winter decoration. Times, Sunday Times
Happily, by "gunplay" they writer didn't mean, "What's the upside of random shootings? Sharp as a Marble
OH LOOKIE!!! Another turn of events… Life has been turned upside again.
a trackball is essentially an upside-down mouse
Almost, because fund expenses act as a drag on the upside and as a slight accelerator on the downside.
To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
Here's hoping that there is no deeper symbolism in the fact that the Namibian flag was hanging upside-down outside the High Court yesterday.
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
Leverage increases volatility as investors run for cover when they feel threatened and pile in regardless on the upside swing.
Already prepared for the worst on yields by the company's forecasts, the upside potential for investors is evident too.
But free trade also comes with a significant upside for our country, an upside most Democratic pols would rather not discuss today.
One upside of renting can be having more disposable income to enjoy life. The Sun
Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
The blaze of publicity did have its upside. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing a writer says surprises me anymore, not even if Jeff VanderMeer told me he did his first drafts while dangling naked upside from a coconut palm, writing in squid ink through the hollowed fingerbone of William S. Burroughs. MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)
Blake began the upside-down crawl on the net, his hands and feet hooking themselves into holes in the net like it was instinct.
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
And of course, we benefited from the upside in the gold price, but not as significant as one would have expected, because as you know, we are heavily hedged.
And do not think the upside is a great swathe of agility. Times, Sunday Times
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
On the upside, however, we managed to travel for a whole eleven minutes before having to stop the train ‘because of a problem with the engine’.
The two cities Monday retaliatory upside, the Fund began to regain market dominance!
Bryan had walked over and knocked him upside his head to shut him up.
If her bust measurement and shoulders are than her hips, she started as an Upside-Down Triangle; she can opt for a straightish silhouette, or for a Pear shape because she still goes OUT at the waistline, remember? Are you a Ruler or an Apple? - A Dress A Day
With Wall Street again emerging from the bear cave, morbid fear of double dip is fading in the wake of upside corporate reports. The Aviation Boom Market
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.
The only real upside to this penny-pinching is the extra space in the boot.
The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage.
I sense that if I push my luck further, I'll get the cane upside my head.
`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
The sinuosity of the loft is taken back by the upside-down cones that, I suspended as stalactites, they channel downward the light Coni Rovesci by Duilio Damilano
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.
One potential upside is that it may bring an unusual life story closer to publication. Times, Sunday Times
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.
On the upside, I just discussed with my AP Government class how a poll can skew results by how they phrase a question and how important it was to be polling on salient issues.
UPSIDE: The spacious garden with wonderful topiary probably steals the show. Times, Sunday Times
His view is supported by the fact that the company did not mark-to-market all of its investments in the last quarter and with the strong recovery in the biotech market there looks to be good upside in this area.
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.
They go about their dull lives without ever hearing the words novice chaser or staying hurdler, or even once experiencing the adrenalin rush of seeing the horse they backed at 12-1 come to the last flight upsides the favourite.
Upside: The modern mews house is perfect for staff or letting to tenants. Times, Sunday Times
As he said that another old lady came and hit him upside his head with her purse saying, ‘Watch your language young man.’
The question is whether it is worth positioning oneself to take up those rights, given the potential upside. Times, Sunday Times
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
One upside of renting can be having more disposable income to enjoy life. The Sun
Upside: A luxurious country home crafted out of a historic farm building. Times, Sunday Times
But Sarah's outlook remains optimistic and most importantly as balanced as it can be in the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of an actor.
As always, the extent of dollar weakness was tempered by developments in Euroland which continue to undermine the upside potential of the single currency.
As it turns out, isolation from the fleshpots of LA and Seattle has its upside.
This sector could be one of the few to see an upside from the current economic uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
(Southerners love to make much of the supposed fact it is always bad weather in the North and always good in the South) ‘Le ciel francais en tatin’ was how the report was tartly (forgive the pun!) headed-an allusion to a famous French dessert, the Tarte Tatin, which is an upside-down apple tart (and utterly delicious, I might add!). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love of words
Then he hangs upside down like a bat until the ideas begin to flow again. The Sun
Not for the first time, I reflect on the topsy-turvy, upside-down parallel universe of India.
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
Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
Life causes distress, it turns our feelings upside-down with monotonous regularity. Know Your Own Mind
On the upside, I think I'll get to catch an episode of Sports Night.
And though there are many annoying downsides to this vote-to-get-free-shit political system, one of the upsides is that what seems pretty ok to most defines justice. Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done
I thought he was going to hold his paddle upside down for a minute and still win. The Sun
The upside is six hours of playback per recharge. Times, Sunday Times
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.
There is however an upside to packing more into the small, unutilized spaces of our day.
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
The only upside of the economic slowdown is the chance that inflation will fall further across the eurozone.
This involves turning a conventional chemical company almost upside down.
In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots. The Baja Highway from top to bottom
UPSIDE The views of the sea, best admired from the balcony and veranda. Times, Sunday Times
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
David smirked openly until his grandmother's back was turned, when his father hit him upside his head.
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.
Later that same day he started doing it again and she slapped him upside his head.
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’.
The 7-4 second favourite was fast up and, after leading at the bend, repelled the challenge of Sandyhill Boss, who had loomed upsides as a big danger at the third bend.
Upside: Room service comes without a service charge. Times, Sunday Times
UPSIDE The surrounding area is a magical landscape of low wooded hills and sheltered grassy areas. Times, Sunday Times
Right now, we think that the weight of the evidence shows that, at best, the upside potential for most stocks to continue the gains of the last five quarters is marginal at best.
Living next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down.
You should be sure to form a parapet around the edges of the flat roof in order to contain your new upside-down roof from wind uplift.
There is a lot of upside potential. Times, Sunday Times
My whole life has been turned upside down and I just don't know what to do or think anymore.
On the upside, the Iceland krona rose 0.9%, the Norwegian krone 0.8%, and the British pound 0.7%.
But however insane a cloud of these biting insects may drive you, there is an upside.
We had barely started to empty it, when, in the north-west corner, archaeologist Mike House uncovered a large copper alloy bowl lying upside-down against the edge.
It's not all good news, but it's a small upside to the downslide. The recession saves some trees
My life was turned upside down because of him. The Sun
The upside-down proviso is paternalistic with respect to earlier owners — it applies even if they chose not to make their permission conditional, as in Gracen. IPSC: daily double--theory
This zygodactylous feet also enable the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot to hang upside down to reach otherwise inaccessible fruits or flowers.
But on the upside, here are the best birthday presents I have received.
Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
Roselle makes an excellent tea, and she sneaks carambola into pies and upside-down cakes. One Big Table
He turned the nuclear war strategy upside down when he announced that non-nuclear states could be targeted.
Further forward, the aft hold is broken plates, then the amidships deckhouse and winch-gear lies intact and upside-down, and the goalpost mast has fallen diagonally across the wreck.
Life in America was turned upside down by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929.
You've got the picture upside-down, you dope!
He has a future superstar in multitalented James Harden, a solid floor general in Jamelle McMillan and a long forward with upside in Kraidon Woods. Gators surge to the top of the class
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
Upside The location is convenient and set to become more so. Times, Sunday Times
There's obviously an upside to all this (which I'll get round to talking about at some stage soon) but there's definitely a large amount of grieving to be done.
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 obvious upside of being self-employed is that you can sleep in on any day you please.
The plane was flying upside down at high speed.
The company firmly believes there is a lot of upside movement to its stock and this was the best vehicle to take advantage of that.
I would personally feel justified smacking any would-be assassin upside their head.
The upside of this convenance is that commuters accept a modern, reliable approach of transport, they accumulate beside of the latest technology and their cartage seldom, if ever, crave additional parts. Auto Parts, The Pros and Cons
It spends most of its time hanging upside from a branch in a tropical rainforest, dozing. The Sun
UPSIDE: The spacious garden with wonderful topiary probably steals the show. Times, Sunday Times
That will minimize costs (which will still be large) and reprivatization will allow the government to recoup some of the upside. Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
Some investment products provide high potential for upside performance while safeguarding the net capital invested over a specified term.
We see more downside than upside. Times, Sunday Times
Tony had an upside-down map of Britain on his wall.
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.
Grafton's share price is currently undervalued and has much upside potential, according to a number of analysts.
A: If you look at the markets for the last few months, the moment the Nifty hits around 5,000 odd levels, you enter into what we call a corridor of uncertainty where investors were not able to take a call - from these levels and technically below 4,900 odd levels-what is the risk reward ratio on the upside. Moneycontrol Top Headlines
They're the other side of that twisty-twiny, inside-out, upside-down shakiness that turned the attic into the tower. The House of Arden
Some of the outside lights of the Piccadilly gardens are upside down, which means there is no waterproof protection.
UPSIDE Atmospheric house in a picturesque setting. Times, Sunday Times
He still wasn't a top recruit, but the Miami coaches liked his upside and signed him, then redshirted him in 1999.
However, as the upside potential is exacerbated, so is the downside risk.
The bank appears to be giving up any potential upside on recovery in fair value of assets. Times, Sunday Times
Upside All the benefits of village life in commuting distance of the capital. Times, Sunday Times
Just as he started to put it together, and his friends were "oohing" over the ammo, his wife came up, smacked him upside the head and told him to put the damn thing up. Planet Atheism
Then he was suspended upside down from an overhead gantry for some minutes.
We are served pineapple upside-down cake with tea. Times, Sunday Times
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
He cuffed his brother upside the head and dismounted.
I guess they were originally very disappointed, or continually disappointed because the price of zinc has continued to rise, so that they've been left out of the upside.
I can see an upside to this situation however, you'll get to test, sell, and buy things that other people much more creative than you or I have created.
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
Thanks to phenomenally sticky feet, certain spiders can carry 170 times their weight upside-down.
[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
Of course, on the upside, we bridesmaids get to wear our own outfits and she's springing for Manolos for everyone.
Some conservative commentators, who didn't have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout.
It too plays up the one-note ostinato and fools around with the major-third idea, sometimes sounding it backwards, sometimes upside-down.
No matter how dire the circs, there's always an upside.
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.
Even so, stockpickers see continued upside potential.
They either face being wiped out through nationalisation - or seeing a significant upside if the company survives. The Sun
When pasting the red paper on the door, the character fu must be arranged in an upside-down position.
The stuntman flew the aircraft upside-down within a hair's breadth of the rooftops.

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