Example sentences for: upheaval

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

  • So perhaps the war was irrelevant; grade inflation was the inevitable consequence of upheaval in the tenure system.

  • Set in the present, 7 th Heaven is nonetheless a revisionist view of the past--what that era of cultural upheaval might have looked like if the Weekly Standard had had its way with it.

  • The Coming Desperate Political Upheaval

  • Even in the years of political upheaval, Guangzhou kept open the nation’s ties with foreign countries and with overseas Chinese, millions of whom have their roots here in Guangdong Province.

  • As some readers are aware, the teaching of English to schoolchildren in England has been undergoing great upheaval of late: the National Union of Teachers, the largest in the UK, recently voted overwhelmingly (nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or invigilate [proctor] them.


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