How To Use Upturned In A Sentence

Two gabled mansions with curly upturned eaves are connected by a horizontal two-storey section, topped with yellow-bodied, blue-headed dragons with large pointy teeth and tails thrashing the air.
The wide planing hull lends stability for easy shots down tough rapids, and the boat's upturned bow makes punching through big holes a cinch.
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
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
They upturned four tubs and all the flowers were thrown about.

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The violent revolution upturned the whole country.
Emerging from the subway to see an upturned hot-dog cart on the corner of Franklin Street.
My new paint tubes are arranged in a neat arc, brushes and palette knife by their side, and an upturned white enamel plate ready to do duty as a palette until I can find an old one or buy new.
Many skis were just a whipsawed piece of lumber four to six inches in width with an upturned tip, but they worked well enough to transport the skier to where he wanted to go.
They were able to swim down and then out of the hull to join eight other tourists and the yacht's master on the deck linking the hulls of the upturned craft.
Lift them from the sheet and bend them over upturned egg cups to form baskets.
They were sitting round the fire on upturned boxes.
The architect, thought long and hard about the look of his upturned boats but evidently did not realise that the stoor created by construction work would trigger the fire alarms.
The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
The mysterious stranger took his departure; Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar. Literature
Best of all is his immensely solid wooden staircase with a vault in the form of an upturned ship's hull. Times, Sunday Times
The concession to history often consists of a few new buildings with upturned eaves and garishly painted timber slapped on concrete facades.
No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis.
Next comes a bottle of rum, then a drum; add upturned pots banged with spoons, and we've got a party.
The DA20's waspish empennage and T-tail were still there, as was the short chord, long-span, high-aspect ratio wing with upturned winglets.
After de-briefing we were leaving the field and off to the left in Harrelson's revetment were three guys sitting in a semi-circle on upturned jerry cans, smoking cigarettes and glancing occasionally up at the northern sky.
Asiatic lilies make up for having little or no scent with the beauty of their huge upturned flowers in luminous colours.
They have trouble sometimes coordinating the effort between upturned eyes and downturned mouths, but the extra strikes make the experience all the more memorable.
His overcoat collar upturned all the morning.
They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
This time, though we were continually half-buried, there was no trough in which to be swept, and we drifted squarely down upon the upturned boat, badly smashing it as it was heaved inboard. Chapter 17
Within the barn-like galleries, divided by screens and glass cases, there are backless varnished pine seats modelled, in a functionalist manner, on rows of upturned tea-chests.
The boat was seen upturned and had bumped into others that were tied up. Times, Sunday Times
The plant continues in blossom from June till the first frosts wither the leaves; it is far less coarse than the potatoe; the flower, when full blown, is about the size of a half crown, and quite flat; I think it is what you call salver-shaped: it delights in light loamy soil, growing on the upturned roots of fallen trees, where the ground is inclined to be sandy. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
I resemble my mother so it's a little bit of an upturned nose.
Fortunately for me, I surface somehow clutching the rope on the side of the upturned raft.
The man's upturned eyes and tilted head play off traditional saintly poses in Spanish religious sculpture.
So I was led down blind alleys beneath high upturned eaves, through circular gateways and past piles of drying chillies.
The upturned cardiac apex and the pulmonary artery concavity cause the appearance of a ‘boot shaped’ heart which is usually seen in the older child or the patient with pseudotruncus.
The men who built barrels—one of the major industries of the early American economy—were normally paid for six days of work, but on Saturday they began drinking beer in the morning, then would “sit around upturned barrels playing poker,” and generally “lounged about” until they received their weekly pay. A Renegade History of the United States
The songs on the album were all scratchy, new-wavey and sounded like they had been recorded in an upturned tin bath.
It is significant that, unlike the Albanian portrait, the sitter was highly critical of the painting and forced Phillips to lower the tilt of the upturned nose.
Most frequently it is a fat Mexican-Spanish hacendado, landowner and big farmer, who is represented with his tight trousers, sticking-out belly, and huge upturned moustaches. The Plumed Serpent
I imagine his face as a Mr Potato Head and give him a bulbous nose and a painted, upturned mouth.
It has a long, slightly decurved bill and a short, upturned tail.
It is similar in size, shape, and color to the Marbled Godwit, but the curlew's decurved bill distinguishes it from the upturned bill of the Marbled Godwit.
The suggestions they were given upturned all their ingrained beliefs and habits. Positive Parent Power
And while everybody else is rushing about like bees round an upturned hive you could be catching up with your swotting for your exams. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
‘They used binoculars to check and saw two men sitting on an upturned four metre tinny,’.
She is sturdy and curvy with a pert upturned nose and shiny brown pigtails.
Grandpa, a war hero, is wheeled daily to locations where his medals and upturned hat promote a torrent of coins.
After his aborted attempt to reach the platform onto which his nephew had climbed, Callahan crawled to the back of the "turtled" boat, where he sat on the upturned outboard, wrapped his arms around the engine's lower unit and held on under an unceasing assault of drenching, slamming waves. Chron.com Chronicle
Lips shaped silent words and their faces were upturned towards the stone woman.
Best of all is his immensely solid wooden staircase with a vault in the form of an upturned ship 's hull. Times, Sunday Times
They must have had their faces upturned when the bomb went off; perhaps they were anti-aircraft personnel.
Enela giggled a little at this, and then upturned her face once more.
Instead of cars, traffic was composed of upturned beds, cupboards and doors turned into makeshift rafts, with people paddling seeking food and other necessities.
Jess shivered, looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity.
Their faces are upturned with closed eyes, as if they are absorbing power from the sky.
‘All The Nows We've Had’ is similarly upturned techno, its skipping repetitions pointing towards a stark melancholy.
The suggestions they were given upturned all their ingrained beliefs and habits. Positive Parent Power
It is a charming place, and my only regret is that a masculine woman with blazer and upturned shirt collars prevented me from going before.
Prior Robert was close behind her when she saw the soles of Brother Columbanus's sandals upturned before her, just touched by the sunray from the window, while the rest of him lay still in shadow. A Morbid Taste For Bones
A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. THE RED ONE
That was turning the tables with a vengeance," drawled "Dye," from his perch on an upturned pail. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
a small upturned nose
Speak of Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning and Mark Rothko with worshipful tears glistening in your upturned eyes, taking frequent breaks to compose yourself in between bursts of praise.
He knew he was buried beneath the rubble, somehow alive, but trapped beneath the pile of rocks that had been upturned around him.
Best of all is his immensely solid wooden staircase with a vault in the form of an upturned ship's hull. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, the Padre took the asperge from the hands of one of the acolytes, and with a sign of the cross in benediction while he chanted the _Asperges_, gently sprinkled the holy water on the upturned face. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories
The postbags under his eyes have lost a few bulging packages, and his naturally sulky pout seems, if not upturned into an actual smile, at least faintly curved.
He sat calmly smoking a cigarette, his eyes upturned in placid and Oriental contemplation of the heavens. Tish
They were sitting round the fire on upturned boxes.
She was a pretty woman, with a slightly pointed face, a small upturned nose, and full ruby-red lips.
By ten we're stripped to shorts and tee-shirts and have a coffee stop under a giant baobab, the tree Livingstone likened to an upturned carrot.
An upturned boat on the beach provided shelter.
Guests who witnessed the abduction were left cowering in fear behind upturned restaurant furniture. Times, Sunday Times
Now the same streets were all but deserted - apart from the many abandoned hulks of upturned, burnt-out cars.
Feeling no pain, he was surprised to see blood all over the upturned faces down the access hatch. Times, Sunday Times
There are plenty of critics with woeful tales of upturned or lost caravans, and how they were held up for hours by tiny cars hauling huge caravans.
They are more or less angular, and while elongated transversely at first, become nearly isodiametric as the pileus becomes fully expanded, passing from an elongated form to rectangular, or sinuous in outline, the margin more or less upturned, especially in age, when they begin to loosen and "peel" from the surface of the cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Shapes and patterns - use upturned plastic beakers, egg cups or food storage boxes to press out shapes from a piece of rolled-out dough.
He's that veritable boob with the upturned duckbill hat.
The barrows had been left upturned beside the mixer at the end of the day on Wednesday. THE BOOK LADY
In ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’, the homunculus stares back implacably at the viewer, returning our gaze while apparently indifferent to the upturned, writhing nude male in a glass cage to his left.
He went out into the alley, sat on an upturned shortening barrel, drank an iced coffee black as tar, and smoked a chico. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Then the blazing eye swept onward across the burnished domes and graceful minarets, down into court and park and garden to pause at last upon the ersite bench and the girl standing there beside it, her face upturned full toward the flier. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
sat on an upturned bucket
There was no time for the diplomacy of muttered condolences or passing excuses about his wife, nothing that might help reestablish their precoital relations, nothing but an upturned galvanized bucket, a banging door and a car disappearing hastily into the night. Whispers Of Betrayal
He went out into the alley, sat on an upturned shortening barrel, drank an iced coffee black as tar, and smoked a chico. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Eyelightfish have a blunt snout, a large upturned mouth, a deeply forked caudal fin, and a light-emitting organ, called a photophore, under each eye.
Cliff Hill is very close, has a trig point and a regular shape like an upturned saucer.
Todd always pictured him like that - shoulders shrugged, hands upturned, that tiny deprecating smile on his face. FINAL RESORT
Put an upturned eggcup in the middle of the dish to prop up the pastry. Times, Sunday Times
That's what you think, she says, the corner of her mouth perversely upturned. The Investigator
An upturned footlocker stands at the side of the bed, topped with a green glass-shaded lamp.
Hope all is well and that my mugshot has not caused too many upturned stomachs out there.
The boat was seen upturned and had bumped into others that were tied up. Times, Sunday Times
Thus some, with upturned nose, will altogether sniff and disdain Sansculottism; others will lean heartily on it; nay others again will lean what we call heartlessly on it: three sorts; each sort with a destiny corresponding. The French Revolution
Use upturned plant pots on sticks or canes as supports (0845 402 5300; www. harrod horticultural. com). Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Paw prints everywhere, upturned vases and dead birds the leftovers from the buffet.
Between them and Geoffrey was the little stool Geoffrey had been sitting on while his computer sat on top of an upturned laundry basket.
He fought for and won the right to use the huge loft of the barn - a magical space like the upturned hull of a ship. The Times Literary Supplement
The visor of his cap was pulled low, obscuring most of his face, but his upturned collar gave him away.
It thrashed through the shops, turning them into matchwood and bits of toys and upturned fridges.
A family huddles in a room in one photo and others show debris and upturned furniture.
A raised knob at the end of its snout gives it the appearance of having an upturned nose.
In five and a half hours here is a sample of a few antics: one upturned full basket of folded laundry, 4 spilled cups of water, acquired and placed in mouth 9 hard candiesyes, I counted,one peeled off corner of wallpaper, several bites out of 5 different apples, one knocked over shoe rack holding 10 pairs of shoes, one totally decimated bag of shreddies. Some Days Test Our Mettle
The violent revolution upturned the whole country.
Likened to an upturned table, its four tall magnolia chimneys stretching 28 metres into the sky, Battersea Power Station has been one of London's best-loved landmarks since the 1930s.
His bare foot then slammed on to the upturned key. The Sun
People can be seen scrambling over the ship 's upturned hull before sliding into the sea. Times, Sunday Times
A monk gazes upward through a dark chapel towards a shining stained-glass triptych; a nun gazes across a black expanse at a candle flame; wizened, benevolent countenances are upturned, and the light of faith shines down upon them.
By the time the rescuer reached the upturned boat, my father had disappeared.
Near another tent, a group of women were chanting to a rhythm beaten out on a makeshift drum: half a calabash upturned in a plastic basin of water, struck by a flip-flop.
An upturned enamel bowl and spilled carrots were scattered across the back stoep. Let The Dead Lie
To add to the clean, nautical style, the ceiling resembles an upturned boat. Times, Sunday Times
Guests who witnessed the abduction were left cowering in fear behind upturned restaurant furniture. Times, Sunday Times
A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, and by peering, querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. The Red One
‘Behold the wrath of a woman wronged!’ he stated in a theatrical manner, arms extended in front of him and palms upturned and pointing towards me.
Photos of the scene showed buildings reduced to rubble, including what appeared to be a school with upturned desks and chairs covered in dust. Times, Sunday Times
The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull.
An upturned boat on the beach provided shelter.
Feeling no pain, he was surprised to see blood all over the upturned faces down the access hatch. Times, Sunday Times
He felt a sharp prick when he stepped on an upturned nail.
The cold snow was a welcome coolant as it drifted onto her upturned face. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
I sat on an upturned box.
Her upturned profile, proud but not snobbish, promises to cut through the stormy seas ahead.
A black roof, sloping on both sides in the shape of an upturned English ‘V’ and a wall of white stones in the middle, on whose forehead the house number shone like a black bindi.
She looked down at the sea of upturned faces.
In my family we have what some have called a perfect nose; straight, not too big or too small, not upturned or knobbed. Big Nose, Little Nose, Young Nose, Blue Nose « Colleen Anderson
There's an entire upturned apple tree suspended from the ceiling as a chandelier, lighting up the local crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The upturned, crispate anterolateral margins of Rocacarcinus are seen in other genera within the family.
Feeling no pain, he was surprised to see blood all over the upturned faces down the access hatch. Times, Sunday Times
His bare foot then slammed on to the upturned key. The Sun
We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat.
Marrow like lace, piece of a skull, upturned cup, fingerbones scattered like corn and ribs interlaced like cholla. Pony Positive Day Two
Several well-dressed older women shot them disdainful looks before looking away, noses upturned.
The crispness had gone from Juanita's pink frock, and the cloth of gold roses were wellnigh petalless, but the hand that she slipped into his was warm and soft, and the eyes that were upturned to Mercer's blue ones were shining with admiring tears. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Shoes in one hand, eyes closed, a smile of joy on her upturned face, she was wining and jumping up in the mud.
Only a few lifeboats could be launched and although hundreds of passengers managed to scramble on to the upturned hull they were left stranded. Times, Sunday Times
His bare foot then slammed on to the upturned key. The Sun
The cat was sitting on an upturned crate.
On the back of the cave was an upturned seaman's chest that spilled crumbly garments of silk and lace, ivory and gold ornaments, and heaps of gold and silver coins and fine jewellery of old.
Between them and Geoffrey was the little stool Geoffrey had been sitting on while his computer sat on top of an upturned laundry basket.
Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings's white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse. Roughing It, Part 7.
A mirthless smile upturned one corner of his mouth.
A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash.
His bare foot then slammed on to the upturned key. The Sun
His overcoat collar upturned all the morning.
Running a hand through my disheveled hair, I upturned the bag and emptied its contents onto my bedspread.
Running a hand through my disheveled hair, I upturned the bag and emptied its contents onto my bedspread.
An upturned boat on the beach provided shelter.
The cast beat upturned dustbins and oil-drums attached to the boxes.
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A strip of upturned earth lies beside the site. Times, Sunday Times
A little shower of drops struck her upturned face, some of them finding her mouth. EVERVILLE
The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
The captain just shot him a look as he upturned his bucket onto the ice and sat down carefully.
As a final part of the cooperage process, a fire is lit under the upturned barrel and this is what gives toasted flavours to a wood-aged Chardonnay.
He raised those tattooed arms in adulation of his God, stood from his pew with his head upturned so that tears flowed down his checks and onto his wrinkled neck. That's My King
Television pictures showed upturned furniture in the restaurant and a large pool of blood on the floor.
This modern, round building does resemble an upturned funnel with spout mounting to the heavens.
Heedless of the curse, he put an upturned shaving bowl on his head for a helmet, climbed on his horse and rushed forward - only to plunge his lance into the sail of a windmill and be lifted from his saddle into clear air.
Miss Kennedy with manners transposed the teatray down to an upturned lithia crate, safe from eyes, low. — Ulysses
Guests who witnessed the abduction were left cowering in fear behind upturned restaurant furniture. Times, Sunday Times
She sat on an upturned box.
A strip of upturned earth lies beside the site. Times, Sunday Times
There's a lot of stress—I fly all over the country going to “story hours” in library basements where I have to somehow sit on a chair made for a five-year-old's butt and read to all the little snot-nosed brats with their adorable upturned faces. Flying the Potty-Mouthed Skies
Foyers, auditorium and flytower are all enclosed in a single sculptural form, like an upturned hull, running west-east across the main north-south grain of the building.
In fact he had broken off contact already and languidly pushed the linen hat farther across his upturned face. THE QUEST FOR K
The room itself was a mess, papers all over the place, and two of the chairs were upturned.
Military divers blasted new holes in the upturned hull yesterday as the search continued for the missing. Times, Sunday Times
There's the winter debris of the summer's plants, especially the strong gaunt stands of thistles, frizzy wands of rosebay willowherb, and upturned umbrellas of umbelliferae.
His bare foot then slammed on to the upturned key. The Sun
The bubbles were still rising out of an upturned elkhorn which had rolled down the slope.
The Collector looked down at the gaunt, upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs.
A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. THE RED ONE
In contrast, it is less strongly upturned in the same position in P. ultima and then downturned just before the tip.
A teacher and an underwear salesman were already seated on stools around the upturned box that doubled as card and coffee table.
He strode back to the van and returned with his largest cornet yet, four flakes poking out like the legs of an upturned chocolate chair buried in an avalanche of ice cream.
Put an upturned eggcup in the middle of the dish to prop up the pastry. Times, Sunday Times
A Hillman Imp, a roof rack, the beak of an upturned canoe overshooting its windscreen.
An upturned boat on the beach provided shelter.
Guaranteed to be Hull's most unusual building, features will include a forest of miniature wind turbines and solar panels, a wall made of upturned caravans and a footpath of shower trays.
He knelt calmly with his hands upturned and a look of concentration on his face.
The postbags under his eyes have lost a few bulging packages, and his naturally sulky pout seems, if not upturned into an actual smile, at least faintly curved.

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