Examples of upend in a Sentence
He upended the bicycle to fix its flat tire.
I upended the bucket to use as a stool.
The security inspector upended my bag and dumped everything out.
A giant wave upended the surfers.
The midfielder was upended before he got the ball.
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The first Dutch original film on Disney+, The Balloonist shows what happens when young chicken farmer Gaby's predictable life is upended by a hot air balloon crashing into her coop.
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PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Geeta Kapadia, chief investment officer at Fordham University, echoed similar concerns, cautioning that mass retail flows could upend how private markets function.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The attack upended check-in desk operations and boarding information for flights in major airports such as London Heathrow and Brussels.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
While Piaget was certainly correct in observing that children engage in a host of unusual behaviors, my lab recently uncovered evidence that upends some long-standing assumptions about the limits of children’s logical capabilities that originated with his work.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Geeta Kapadia, chief investment officer at Fordham University, echoed similar concerns, cautioning that mass retail flows could upend how private markets function.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The attack upended check-in desk operations and boarding information for flights in major airports such as London Heathrow and Brussels.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
While Piaget was certainly correct in observing that children engage in a host of unusual behaviors, my lab recently uncovered evidence that upends some long-standing assumptions about the limits of children’s logical capabilities that originated with his work.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Upend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upend. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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upend
verb
up·end
ˌə-ˈpend 
: to set, stand, or rise on end
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