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.
• 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
• Banksy's own body of work speaks to a desire to upend the status quo.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 May 2021
• 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
• On top of all that, a force of nature is threatening to upend their lives.
  — Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• Training for a run like that would take months and upend normal life.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 16 May 2022
• 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
• Still, the high cost of child care has upended the careers of even those with college degrees.
  — Moriah Balingit, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
• That this was the guy that could ... upend electoral history.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• For decades, startups have tried and failed to upend how Americans buy and sell homes.
  — Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
• The findings have the potential to upend past thinking about how the disease is spread.
  — chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• And for good measure, there’s one watch-out that could upend all of that co-branded training.
  — Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Much has been made of how Gen Z is upending food and beverage norms.
  — Kate Bernot, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
• Counting out a partner might upend your whole life plan.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
• The Clippers beat the Knicks and Nets earlier this year and upended the Cavaliers a week ago.
  — Janis Carr, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Early on in the movie, Vikander’s Virginia upends the household.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The lawsuit could upend the process of awarding Virginia's 12 electoral votes to Harris.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Inevitably, of course, the 1990s is about the arrival of new media technologies that would upend our lives in endless ways large and small.
  — oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2022
• The new research upends these ideas, suggesting the forts were more likely built to support trade and travel.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Every era brings its own reasons to fret about the state of the world, but the headline-news topics of late—wars, deportations, layoffs—are upending lives in profound ways at mass scale.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 July 2025
• That’s obviously the most ambitious goal on the table for us, because that whole system is clearly screwed up almost beyond repair unless somebody else comes in and upends it all.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 21 July 2025