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Example sentences for: upset

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I might suggest that many of the mini-scandals that pop up and dominate the news for a few cycles do so not because anyone's legitimately upset or outraged over them but because people like you and (especially) me need something to talk about.
The NYT lead notes that the decision by the Brazilian government to allow its currency to shrink in value by more than 8 percent upset financial markets all over the world.
I also get the impression that Jane thinks that her being upset supersedes any responsibility she has for getting my book back.
It is named after Count Louis de Frontenac, a rascally 17th-century French governor who upset the clergy by encouraging the sale of brandy to the native peoples.
Some are also upset by the eroticism of Parmigianino in his strange but undeniably graceful Madonna with the Long Neck (1534) — just look at those elongated fingers — a masterpiece of the sophisticated and subsequently decadent Mannerism that followed the High Renaissance.