How to Use upend in a Sentence
upend
verb- I upended the bucket to use as a stool.
- A giant wave upended the surfers.
- He upended the bicycle to fix its flat tire.
- The midfielder was upended before he got the ball.
- The security inspector upended my bag and dumped everything out.
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The result doesn’t just upend the rest of the NFL playoffs, with the favorite now out of the picture.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
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Banksy's own body of work speaks to a desire to upend the status quo.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 May 2021
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What’s the next move for the right-wing Supremes in their attempts to upend everything?
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
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On top of all that, a force of nature is threatening to upend their lives.
—Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
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Training for a run like that would take months and upend normal life.
—Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 16 May 2022
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But as fans of the Fab Four can attest, rock ’n’ roll thrives when rule-breakers upend the status quo.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
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Still, the high cost of child care has upended the careers of even those with college degrees.
—Moriah Balingit, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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That this was the guy that could ... upend electoral history.
—Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
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For decades, startups have tried and failed to upend how Americans buy and sell homes.
—Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
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The findings have the potential to upend past thinking about how the disease is spread.
—chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
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And for good measure, there’s one watch-out that could upend all of that co-branded training.
—Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
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Dallas needs to beat the Giants and have the Eagles upend Washington if the Cowboys are to slip through.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
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Much has been made of how Gen Z is upending food and beverage norms.
—Kate Bernot, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
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Counting out a partner might upend your whole life plan.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
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The Clippers beat the Knicks and Nets earlier this year and upended the Cavaliers a week ago.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
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Swift is in the rare position to want to upend the system and actually have the power to do so.
—Raisa Bruner, Time, 25 Mar. 2021
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Early on in the movie, Vikander’s Virginia upends the household.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
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And that shows just how much Trump has helped distort and upend the Republican Party's sense of right and wrong.
—Joel Mathis, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
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Yet a massive change is afoot that threatens to upend this supply chain and jolt prices for sweets, skin-care products and herbal medicines.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
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For decades, threats to the U.S.-led order were limited to a handful of rogue states with little power to upend it.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
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The lawsuit could upend the process of awarding Virginia's 12 electoral votes to Harris.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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The most recent numbers seemed to upend that hope, with prices rising for goods across the board, led by sharp jumps in the costs of energy and groceries.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
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There was no chance that a child's quarantine would upend work schedules.
—NBC News, 21 Dec. 2020
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Newsweek spoke with Hayley and her 25-year-old son, Jay, about the misdiagnosis that upended their lives.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
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Those low-fare carriers had another problem when wages went up in the wake of the pandemic, upending their low-cost model.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
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