Example sentences for: upside-down

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

  • Well, Gene Hackman once described how the Poseidon Adventure producers wanted him back for a sequel, and when he pointed out that his character had been incinerated (in a pit of molten lead, coincidentally), they said he could greet the previous film's survivors as they exited the upside-down vessel with the line: "Did my brother make it?"

  • Indeed, the Alexanders, as black leaders in Philadelphia, cannot be understood without Cecil Moore, the fiery ex-Marine who became the head of Philadelphia's NAACP in 1963 and proceeded to turn the city upside-down with his militant protests.

  • ' At times abbreviations or acronyms get upside-down as well as backward meanings.

  • The apartments beyond are hung with Flemish tapestries recording Charles V’s Tunis Expedition of 1535, one of them showing an upside-down map of the Mediterranean.

  • As he flies around like George Jetson in his upside-down module, Gingrich is ever counting.


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