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How to use upend in a sentence

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Harris suggested that teachers should challenge students, upend their settled ideas, and expose them to worlds far beyond their own experiences.
When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings, do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.
The clock can circumrotate 360 degrees and the LCD time display will never upend.
It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.
It is a revolutionary story, which threatens to upend the world as we know it.
Most recently, he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston, Montana, home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.
Highly leveraged financial firms with portfolios of risky assets are bound to upend an economy every so often.
Outside, the light blue upend casing distinguishes the building skeleton from the surrounding industrial buildings.
And through him, millet has a perfect vehicle for her dark, understated wit and tendency to upend narrative expectations.
In August, Sen. Ted Cruz linked the need to upend the IRS to its abuse of power.
The recent NFL referee lockout turned Sunday games into chaotic affairs, and threatened to upend a financial juggernaut.
He took Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota but failed to upend Romney in Michigan.
He takes Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota and fails to upend Romney in Michigan.
Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.
There was lifting to it —though Wally Lewis says there was no intent to upend him dangerously— but the tackle is on report.
First, he wants to upend the conventional league tables that rank the foreign policies of modern American presidents.
I think everybody was still feeling uneasy however, thinking that I had done something rather drastic, or worried that I would upend things at the very last minute.
I tell them no good can come from worrying about the tea table, so they shouldn't worry about it, and because I've mastered upending the table again right when Miyamoto-san tries to upend it.
Their annual matchups with Miami at home and Florida on the road being the only real threats to upend Florida State's march to the Sugar Bowl.
My favourite level was set in an office, with the table doubling as a desk: upend your workstation at just the right moment and you'll send co-workers plummeting out of the window to their deaths.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is safe, as we will never meet again, and all ideas of justice will upend in the coming cataclysm.
Martin O'Neill believes Friedel was trying to avoid rather than upend Fernando Torres during the penalty incident midway through the second half.
Why, 'e took up 'is end o' the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and me a puffin' an' a blowin' afore I could upend mine anyhow, an' I'm no chicken, neither.
Unlike vibratory screeners, gyratory screeners impart no vertical motion, so long pellets remain flat on the deck and don't upend and pass through the screens.
More important, the Institute's brief underscores the signal importance of the panel's decision in threatening to upend the settled expectations of taxpayers and states alike.
Ray's launch barge, the Intermac 650, from a fabrication yard in China to the offshore installation site as well as the launch, upend and set down of the jacket.
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