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How to use upended in a sentence

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With a grinding, groaning sound, the wrecked car upended and slid into the river.
The groundskeeper has expanded his antimole system, a circle of plastic pop bottles sliced open on the sides and upended on sticks in the ground.
What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
The log upended there didn't split like it was suppose to and with an angry yank, Joe tried to pull the head free.
He called 911 right after he'd stepped through his front door and tripped over the upended credenza.
You often hear of Miyamoto-san helping others to clear up the tea table after he has upended it.
They had to wade across a thick carpet of paper, twisted furniture, upended chairs and shattered computer terminals.
They are levelheaded creative types in an egalitarian marriage that is upended by parenthood.
If you can outthink them, especially at speed, you have upended their work.
They may mock our upended plastic garden chairs and our gently swinging gates, but they will never break our spirit.
But the Ukraine situation has upended Lukashenko's geostrategic calculus by demonstrating what can happen if you defy Moscow.
Whenever politics or economics seek to block general access to this universal right, the natural order of things is upended.
When his perfect life is suddenly tragically upended, leaving him as a single father unqualified for the role.
Without positive inertia, any growth may be quickly upended by pulling the rug out.
Just minutes later, Ghana keeper Nana Bonsu upended Peru striker Jesus Rey in the box.
So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.
In a desperate bid to rectify his error, the keeper then upended the attacker just inside the D to earn himself a straight red card.
Catherine St. between St. Laurent Blvd. and Jeanne-Mance, with the street upended by all the ongoing construction and repairs.
Last week, outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a war hawk, was upended in a surprise primary loss.
He was the electric young upstart who upended her inevitable path to the White House in Iowa.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But there sat Hugh, as square, as solid, and as incurious as an upended bale of cotton.
One of my arms was free and I struck with my fist at the gaping, upended mouth.
Here, with the other properties of his act, a slickly painted blue barrel stood upended.
They hung all askew, helplessly pinned, some broadside, some upended.
Stephen haled his upended valise to the table and sat down to wait.
From the upended slit of mouth in that goggling face, came a scream.
Ignatius, acting as a saturnalian Lord of Misrule, has upended the social relationships that were trapping Burma and Gus.
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