How to Use turn (something) upside down in a Sentence
turn (something) upside down
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In the year 2020, the world will turn upside down and in all the chaos and destruction there will be rebirth.
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Michaela Angela Davis,
Allure,
28 Apr. 2021
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When one tike creeps through her closet door to their world, things turn upside down.
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Ben Flanagan | [email protected],
al,
17 June 2022
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Just imagine watching the world turn upside down on an OLED.
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Jacob Krol,
CNN Underscored,
8 July 2020
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As the ship was starting to turn upside down, Coburn and a handful of men pulled themselves up through a side porthole.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2023
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Fill jar with birdseed, then carefully turn upside down on a bread-and-butter plate.
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Giovana Gelhoren,
Country Living,
30 July 2021
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The world is ours to turn upside down, and our divided nation needs a different story to heal.
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Aric Jenkins,
Fortune,
18 Dec. 2020
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Carp can live in temperature ranges that would make most other species turn upside down.
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Kirk Deeter,
Field & Stream,
5 Dec. 2020
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Remove, use spatula to loosen edges and bottom and turn upside down onto plate.
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Rita Nader Heikenfeld,
The Enquirer,
12 May 2023
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With a new generation of students signing up to learn karate from these two former fighters, things turn upside down for everyone as past and present collide.
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Tamara Fuentes,
Seventeen,
2 Sep. 2020
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Isabelle Huppert stars as Erika, the titular piano teacher, who starts up an affair with one of her students and then watches her life turn upside down.
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Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2021
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Tammy’s appearance was a sure sign that Swanson’s life was about to turn upside down, as the couple would alternate between passionate love and fierce hatred.
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Delaney Nothaft,
USA TODAY,
27 Apr. 2023
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This year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them.
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Caitlin McCabe,
WSJ,
30 Aug. 2021
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