Example sentences for: upside

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

  • A ruby-and-diamond necklace might have to go for inheritance taxes: Cartier would buy it back, dismantle it entirely, and make it into two tiaras and a brooch for three other clients, maybe preserving some elements and using them upside down or sideways.

  • On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."

  • Today, however, the main arts festival is only part of a veritable circus of summer activities that seem to turn the city upside down.

  • Gore continued his scare campaign by phoning Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie to complain that a photo the Post had run of the big-blue-marble Earth was upside down!

  • (For answer to series, turn your monitor upside down.


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