Example sentences for: upended

How can you use “upended” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (In September 1996, when Hurricane Fran upended Durham, N.C., the local Herald-Sun agreed to distribute a FEMA advice booklet, only to discover--according to the paper's editor--that the booklet was held up for five crucial days so that it could be reworked to feature pictures of, and messages from, the president and Democratic Gov.

  • It's the second big blow to Hilbert's legacy: His audacious attempt to ground all mathematics in a finite number of axioms was upended by Gödel's incompleteness theorem in 1931.

  • And for people who are supposedly obsessed with celebrities, Americans seem remarkably interested in what other "real" people are doing--as long as what they're doing involves either being chased down with 40 vials of crack, fighting a long illness, driving the wrong way on a freeway, or getting upended off a ladder by an overly friendly springer spaniel.


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