Example sentences for: upset

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

  • I can not for the life of me understand why so many people are so upset at the idea of gay marriages.

  • Others are upset because a revision of recent price history would mean abandoning a worldview on which they have staked their reputations.

  • (Click if you're interested in another marriage penalty on the working poor that no one seems upset about.)

  • Countries in debt usually prefer raising bonds, which are cheaper to finance than regular loans, but Japan seems skittish about issuing new bonds, which could upset its bond market or provoke scrutiny from credit companies.

  • The you-are-there feel of the story is upset only slightly by the disorienting avalanche of Seussian place-names in such passages as: "The police closed the main road from Pristina to Pec soon after dawn.


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