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Sentence Examples I felt like I'd just finished a roller coaster ride that I hadn't realized twisted upside down several times and now I wanted to heave. There were several different versions of some of the runes, and individual runes might be carved back-to-front or upside down. After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again. They're intended to hold tapers, but apparently putting them upside down is The Hottest Trend in home candle fashions. To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw. He's written in thick black texta, in large letters, capitals, and she can read it upside down. If your manual recommends it, porcelain bowls can occasionally be cleaned in a self-cleaning oven cycle, upside down on oven racks. Plus, we were shooting nights and that messed you up completely because your whole day was upside down. If the season hasn't already turned your life upside down, you now have a chance to experience its topsy-turviness in true medieval spirit. This has also resulted in many folk beliefs and cultural traditions being turned upside down. But you try doing the splits upside down with your head underwater and all the while keeping a smile on your face. She testified that another girl held in the same facility was hung upside down, naked and shocked repeatedly with the electric prod. To do this by short division we make the long division symbol upside down and carry the remainders like this. Others hang half upside down off the monkey bars, shooting imaginary spider webs out of their wrists. My world had been turned upside down and I feared that it would never be right again. My whole life has been turned upside down and I just don't know what to do or think anymore. Our perceptions too of Gilbert and Sullivan are turned upside down, or perhaps right side up. That same poll also depicted a city whose demographics had been turned upside down. Will changes in tournament format and a move to the sport condition turn your regular game upside down? The world, as the traditionalists see it, has been turned almost completely upside down. Show More Sentences I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through. But then, in my paintings, I started twisting branches upside down so that they became shapes lying into the landscape. She looked up at him as he twisted the two streamers together and taped them in a sort of upside down McDonald's sign above the window. Taking a small charcoal depiction of a bike from his sketch pad, he turned it upside down and copied it this way onto the wall. Sometimes they lose their balances and pop upside down like bobbers which is fun and helps the learning experience. Some very knowledgable people say that most contemporary bodyboards for sale today ride faster when ridden upside down and backwards. With the bike upside down, clamp the top of the seatpost into a large bench vise that is bolted to a very secure workbench. However, his uneventful, everyday life is turned upside down by Connie's death. Then she tidied the piles of paper and slotted it into the printer trays upside down, so that the next day's printing would be backed with junk. Both the material and metaphysical universes of the indigenous people were turned upside down. After all that unpleasantry Saber had endured, how dare anyone presume to think they knew him backwards, frontwards, upside down and sideways? One of the actual saving energies in the place is speech, double-take, subversion, bouleversement, turning the thing upside down. We could see some of them which had toppled over and rolled down the precipitous slopes and remained upside down at most nauseating angles. With the change in social status and economic status, your entire mindset gets turned upside down virtually overnight. The basis of the past policy behind economic diplomacy is now turned upside down. It was a total disaster and turned upside down the conventional view of Victorian sexuality. They part to reveal a man hanging upside down from a wall upstage, and a woman, standing in a spotlight down stage, reaching out to him. This can be done whether the ship is resting upside down, pitched at an angle or has broken in two. The sculpture was rediscovered in 1723 upside down near the south porch of the church, where it had been used as a step. It was a curious design, like a shortened, blunt spearhead hung upside down. Show More Sentences Empty the contents onto a tissue by squeezing the bulb rapidly while holding it upside down. The container was upside down, so when the sides opened, the contents spilled out onto the carpet at the engineer's feet. He turned the nuclear war strategy upside down when he announced that non-nuclear states could be targeted. Use a volumizing product on wet hair, distributing through locks upside down and concentrating on the roots. Dropping down a few branches, I hooked my legs over a branch and hung upside down, the way I did when I was a kid. Lithe as a monkey, he climbed across a tree branch, and hooked his legs over the branch, hanging upside down and swinging back and forth. Wooden carvings of birds hang upside down from a set of wires stretched along the low ceiling. West, Vancouver, fabricated the new bridge sections upside down and welded orthotropic troughs to the 16.8-m-wide deck plates. I was woken by a crash, a bout of swearing, and then the sudden appearance of his face, upside down, over the chaise lounge. Some of the outside lights of the Piccadilly gardens are upside down, which means there is no waterproof protection. Once in the house of custom, on the hither side of the cutting edge, as it were, the scene appears upside down, turned on its head. But her world turned upside down when she discovered her husband's mistress had hired a hit man to kill her. Here, as in other parables, Jesus uses a symbol to turn our understanding upside down. It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish. Also, bear in mind that the fresnel lens both flips the image upside down and has a mirror effect on the text. He was unaware that he was upside down and thought he was in the corridor immediately behind the coal train's cab. We didn't have a clue what we were doing as the thing was blown inside out, outside in and upside down. Camp is a world where the norms of society are turned upside down and inside out into a culture of its own. If death is just life upside down, as these lines suggest, then there are certainly no tragic endings to human life, no consummating finalities. Lay your bookmark upside down very carefully on one edge of the contact paper so you can fold over the rest of it on the back of the bookmark. Show More Sentences He took the narrow bridge too quickly and the car crashed through the bridge and plunged into Poucha Pond, landing upside down under the water. The roof is essentially inverted or turned upside down compared to the standard roofing. To serve, cut around each slice of bread and serve each piece upside down with pineapple and juices on top. Within the span of a few hours, my entire life had been flipped inside out and upside down. Angie touched the locket, popping it open to see the upside down photo of Chad. Logic is turned upside down and instead of being punished for their crimes of omission they reap their due reward. In the past week, accusations of cronyism and sexual politics have turned the city hall press gallery upside down. The tree stump was hauled from the place of its growth to a funerary monument in a saltmarsh, and turned upside down. She tries not to come in like a whirlwind or gangbusters and turn things upside down. Then he was suspended upside down from an overhead gantry for some minutes. This year, with the anti-fashion look, the stress is on uneven hems and necklines, upside down darts and trimmings that are left uncompleted. In another example of blurry physical boundaries, consider the gecko, a lizard remarkable for its ability to walk upside down on ceilings. He did loops, sideslips, death spirals, wingovers and rollovers and even flew upside down 50 feet above the meadow. The punt was finally brought ashore and laid upside down against a garden wall at our home in Cork. In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down. We were flying at 667 feet per second, and just about the time I remembered to gulp some air, we rolled upside down, then flipped right-side up. Images have been distorted, multiplied, turned upside down and projected all over the inside of the building. Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope. Turn box upside down and tap lightly on the bowl to remove excess chocolate. It's extending deadlines, and changing rules and waiving certain fees for people whose lives have been turned upside down by Katrina. Show More Sentences Large, many-flowered blooms such as dill, fluffy grasses, and Queen Anne's lace, should be dried upright, not hanging upside down. Instead, you stand meekly, wearing your most hopeful expression, vainly attempting to read the seating plan upside down. We need to turn this idea upside down, and recognize that all politics in our era is global. Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it. As if a rope from above were hooked to the bottom of the Dumpster, we spun upside down with a hard yank. This zygodactylous feet also enable the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot to hang upside down to reach otherwise inaccessible fruits or flowers. No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis. Further around are three dolls, the reversible kind that you turn upside down to find another face. Hurricane Katrina put a boat upside down in a New Orleans resident's front yard after the protective levees broke. Although the youngster was wearing a lifebelt, she had become stuck under the water after turning upside down. It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat. Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers. He finds his comfortable loneliness turned upside down when a Chinese American woman enters his world and challenges him to embrace life. Wild lories and lorikeets spend their days climbing, hopping and hanging upside down while feeding from flowers. He ran his car into the back of David Coulthard's McLaren and flipped through the air, landing upside down. If the court verdict had favored Port Said, cairenes say, the capital's own ultras would have turned Cairo upside down. Living next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down. Her world turns upside down when her roommate and bff, Sophie, meets a fella and decides to move out. The cook at my favorite restaurant astonished me by keeping cabbage fresh for months by pulling it up and hanging it upside down by the roots in her own root cellar. For the last minute, Clarence had been lying on his back, shimmying and kicking his legs, almost as if he was listening to James Brown and dancing, but upside down. Show More Sentences A Gecko can support the equivalent of 90 pounds while hanging upside down. Not only is Paleo flipping evolution upside down, but a second retro diet for future health, the Okinawa, comes in at number six. Characteristically it enjoys hanging upside down and motionless from a rough network of silken threads spun untidily in the corners of warm moist rooms, such as boiler rooms. There the fool enjoyed special license to ridicule pretense and turn upside down social rituals and solemnities, including the dignity of the king himself. He grabs her off her horse and places her upside down across his lap. The shuttle landed upside down, and if she hadn't been wearing her seat belt, Saffron likely would have crushed her skull on the shuttle's unpadded metal ceiling. It's called bow pose, but isn't it just an upside down backbend? The exhibition features a surreal and eccentric collection of creations such as three spouted teapots and upside down jugs, and opens tomorrow, Saturday. As we rounded the last corner to the hamlet we were surprised to find a Freelander upside down in the stream at the bottom of the gulley next to the road. During the performance of the famous Water Torture Cell act, the apparatus that held him upside down suddenly snapped and he broke his left ankle. He soon came to the realisation that he was trussed up and hanging upside down from what looked like a fish hook, a bigger version of that at least. He will showcase new material too in a show full of state-of-the-art theatrics, topped off by the sight of Gabriel being suspended upside down from the stage. Civil wars in various countries added to the world war, genocidal massacres, political assassinations and monstrosities of war turned the world upside down. In her topsy-turvy upside down world she could clearly make out exactly where her body was supposed to be going but she misinterpreted it somewhere from perception to motion. Suddenly she was brought to an upright position, blood rushed back down from her previously upside down head, before it came back up to flame her pale face. The fourth plane crashed, upside down, not into a landmark but into the Pennsylvanian countryside, after what seems to have been heroic resistance from the passengers. The racket is spun on its head and falls to the ground. If the symbol is rightside up, it is called smooth. If the symbol is upside down, it is called rough. There's lots of movement that's upside down, off centre, racy. If an airplane wing provides lift, how does a plane fly upside down? For 45 minutes, I get to aerate my brain, turn the world upside down, revel in music, poetry, humor. Show More Sentences Not since crocodile Dundee graced our movie screens has a man from down under turned our world so upside down. A black-and-white cat named Chopper sleeps upside down on the porch, his open mouth revealing a row of impossibly tiny teeth. Huge boats are stranded far from the ocean, some of them upside down. The birds hold their bills upside down, using their lower bills and tongues to pump water through fringes on the top bills, which filters out microscopic mouthfuls of food. Turning the curve upside down gives you an inverted catenary. He miscounted and for a ghastly moment thought he had overshot the seventh floor and was about to be turned upside down or mangled in the winding gear. I guess my idea that no one drinks cordials was turned upside down. In other words, you can adjust the zoom and camera angle to be as far away or as close up as possible, and as upside down and round about as you like. To elucidate his point, he turned a boot upside down and pointed to the thick, tire-like treads on its sole. Simply gather small bunches of flowers over the summer, loosely bind a few stems together with plastic twist ties, and hang them upside down to dry somewhere out of the way. When our picture of society privileges the most vulnerable, we start seeing every aspect of it upside down. They need not accept as unknowable and unanswerable the mystery that entered their lives, almost destroyed them, and turned their worlds upside down. When the pilot applied the brakes, the plane went forward on to its nose and turned upside down, causing serious damage to the aircraft nose and fin. Her vehicle was clipped by an overtaking car and flipped upside down. The ocean is indeed a magical, mysterious place, a fluid-filled negative space where mountains lay upside down and inverted, and where myth and legend have been born and bred. Slump leadenly into them after you've just spent an hour on the dancefloor and you'll wind up upside down, entangled in their spokes. It is often stated that a flag upside down is a form of distress signal or even a deliberate insult. It also had the benefit from a law enforcement point of view of turning rules of evidence upside down. The female rests at the surface with its head held up, and the young suckle upside down. When the beetle is found turned upside down and one flips it over, Thor's favor may be gained. Show More Sentences And doing it righthandedly and lefthandedly and upside down, it didn't seem like just writing your birthday, did it? With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut. With the tank upside down, pull or twist off the rubber spud washer and use a spud wrench to unscrew the large locking net from the flush valve. Whisk your egg whites until you have stiff peaks and then the bowl can be held upside down over your head and the egg whites stay put. I was at first cautioned against Una boats, for I was told that they had an unpleasant tendency to turn upside down. The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like. A picture of Amy Woodruff breastfeeding her child naked and in an upside down yoga pose went viral two years ago. Customers will get the full picture as they turn products side-to-side, upside down, and then zoom in and out to examine every angle. If they could not answer they were hoisted upside down and ceremonially beaten three times on the rear before being told the placename. Before the Khmer Rouge turned Cambodia upside down, Choeung Ek was an orchard of longan fruit. Blow drying hair on a cool heat upside down can give just as much volume as backcombing. Instead of it being right side up with crust on top and bottom, it actually is upside down, with the fruit being caramelized. If your bag wants to fly upside down, add some weight to the bottom by sliding a few paper clips onto the bottom of the bag. The Colonel's upside down peach cobbler and potato pancake recipe from the book are currently available on the Facebook page. Like all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down. It has to be displayed left to right, not upside down or sideways. But until that day comes I will be stuck in this discombobulating, upside down place that is the dating world. One year, I was given a lighter which revealed a picture of a naked lady when it was turned upside down. Polyps resemble little upside down jellyfish, For protection, they build stony cup-shaped houses called corallites around their soft bodies. If you put it on upside down, the washer is off-center and the secondary drive lever assembly will be difficult to install. Show More Sentences In a system which practises endogamy, allowing young people to marry each other of their own will is a recipe for the caste order being turned upside down. Killer whales can induce tonic immobility in sharks and rays by holding them upside down, rendering them helpless and incapable of injuring the whale. Let's talk about the upside down Christmas tree holdover bars. When they reach market weight, ducks at this factory farm are violently shackled upside down and run through an electrified vat of water before having their throats cut open. We spun the plane sideways in barrel rolls then flew upside down in an inverted flightpath as I looked down at the sheep and the cows a few hundred feet above my head. We used giant primitive oscillators to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way around. At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui. Bats are adapted to roosting, hanging upside down from their feet. But his idyllic life was turned upside down when Vanuatu was ravaged by the 155mph winds of Cyclone Pam, which killed 14 and left thousands homeless. His body was then taken to Milan, where it was hung upside down at a service station for public viewing and to provide confirmation of his demise. Holding upside down a portrait of William Shakespeare as if he had just been gazing at it, the togaed figure of Praemonitio stares terrified into space. The psychic lived in a ticky-tacky house in South Vancouver, did her readings at a Formica kitchen table and began each morning by hanging upside down. Examples from Classical Literature When cake shrinks from pan remove from oven and turn upside down on cake cooler. A wooden slide in the mechanism of the scoreboard rattles into place, upside down. Turn the eggs upside down and cover with some of the fish sauce, colored a delicate rose. The engine is a match-box turned upside down, to which is gummed a cork covered with red or Green Paper. Thus the light curve and the spectroscopic velocity curve are very similar in shape, but one is like the other turned upside down. No need to go with muddy boots, though, or linty, or have your bow upside down. Upon this melick took the cylinder, turned it upside down, shook it smartly, and then lifted it and pounded it against the deck. It did no good, because Cottage Dairy Companies are democratic, and do not turn upside down to advantage. Season the inner side of the tomatoes with salt and pepper, and turn upside down so the water will run out. Most packers carry a galvanized affair, which they turn upside down on top of the pack. When the jelly is perfectly congealed and firm, place a dish over the mould, turn upside down, and remove it. As soon as cold, place a dish on the mould, turn upside down, and remove the mould. The Rebbe, of blessed memory, explains a bit of the Mishnah to him upside down. When the jelly and the birds are cold, see that no gravy hangs to the birds, and then lay them upside down in the jelly. The plectra nearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not. Christmas cakes are traditionally made in November, keeping the cake upside down in an airtight container. Whenever he emptied a bottle, he would turn it upside down and shake it. I hastened to comply with his friendly suggestion, and opening Peggotty's purse, turned it upside down into his hand. The embarrassment, however, was great and worsened when Dauenhauer realized millions of people saw her upside down, bare legs flailing. Granny Thomas' love potion seemed to have turned the world upside down. Show More Sentences They were carried upside down on trolleys, drawn by six horses. She undressed Glorianna, but she got her nightgown on upside down. It was easy to turn upside down our belief in the Fall of Man. They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white! There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. Laurie is as full of didoes as usual, and turns the house upside down frequent, but he heartens the girls, so I let em hev full swing. The firkin was brought, turned upside down, and Joe mounted it. Owner Leighton Naylor, 32, made a floating frame from tubing after swim bladder disease left the tiny fantail turning upside down and sinking. I want something that would upset it all and turn it upside down. In the initial stages of building, the hull was upside down. The old man's eye resting on the empty bottle, he takes it up, examines it, and slowly tilts it upside down. When their mother barely survives a French cave collapse and comes home comatose, their summer turns upside down. Kraken is Orlando's tallest and only floorless rollercoaster where you can reach almost 70mph, climb to 140ft and turns upside down seven times. The Figures stooped, lifted the Hive and shook it upside down over the pyre. The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. He turned it upside down, but nothing came out, which surprised him very much. My dear boy, you may turn the house upside down if you will only stay in it. There was an old barrel there, upside down, one side resting on a block of wood. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. Antony Crerar's life was turned upside down when medics discovered a GBM Grade 4 tumour growing on his brain. Show More Sentences Then he picked me up, upside down, and he slowly gave a little headshake. But alas, the final week of that pleasant vacation was spoiled for Anne, by one of those impish happenings which are like a dream turned upside down. Carson won over Hern and the staff at West Ilsley, but Hern would subsequently have the hunting accident that would turn Carson's world upside down once more. As the mulberry man said this, he turned his glass upside down, by way of reminding his companion that he had nothing left wherewith to slake his thirst. I could look at all the rest of the woods, see my scarlet dress in my beautiful looking-glass, and watch all the yellow and brown trees growing upside down in the water. Giving the lambda a fillip with my finger, I turned it upside down. The popular anti-marriage story about the torments Socrates suffered at the hands of his wife Xanthippe is turned upside down in wedding orations. Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? Find more words! 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