Example sentences for: upturned

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

  • The column commented that Greenwich 'is not a community of Airstream trailers where people sit outside on cinder blocks, whiling away the hours by taking aim with their BB guns at upturned Buicks.

  • You’re looking for Rafal Rubí, a site with two stone structures shaped like upturned boats, navetas (prehistoric burial chambers).

  • On the upturned roof corners of the shimmering golden shrine stand bronze birds.

  • Following a common seaport custom, the white clapboard village church, with its nave shaped like an upturned ship, was designed and built by local shipwrights.

  • A common sight in China (either one) is two individuals closely observing the upturned, outstretched palm of one while the other “draws” ideographs on that palm with a forefinger.


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