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:

  • In its July issue, author Stephen Schwartz writes that the Robeson commemorations is the latest attempt to sell the American people a "falsified" and "upside-down" version of their history.

  • In sensitive-obtuse Joseph, Rosen has found a humorous guide to the upside-down world in which an anorexic suffers.

  • 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.

  • 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?"

  • The expected nucleotide probabilities were estimated from the observed nucleotide frequencies over all sites for 80 Euascomycetes rRNA sequences (A = 26%, C = 22%, G = 27%, T = 25% [ 12 ] ). The nucleotides were turned upside-down when the observed frequency was less than expected [ 45 ] . A total of 43 spliceosomal intron sites, for which 50 nt of both upstream and downstream exon sequence are available, were included in this analysis.


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