How to Use upheaval in a Sentence

upheaval

noun

• The island was created by an upheaval of the ocean floor.
• The lake was formed by geologic upheaval.
• The civil rights movement marked a period of social upheaval in the U.S.
• The show has also seen a bit of of behind-the-scenes upheaval as of late.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 Nov. 2024
• Plus, the work can often be a huge upheaval in and of itself.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 7 June 2022
• Her life was a mess, a loop of false starts, deferred plans and upheaval.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Yard Goats made it through the pandemic and the minor-league upheaval.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
• If the trade war persists, the next upheaval will hit much closer to home.
  — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
• The shift comes at a time of upheaval for the luxury e-commerce space.
  — Noor Lobad, WWD, 9 Sep. 2024
• And the war in Ukraine is a fresh reminder of Afghanistan’s long history of upheaval.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• And so all of these places of upheaval were sending people out, away.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• In both cases, the regime used brutal means to survive the upheaval.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Sep. 2022
• For many, this period of upheaval came with both pros and cons.
  — Sally Percy, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Despite the upheaval of the last two months, Nomar is clear on the purpose of college in his life.
  — Anna North, Vox, 3 Apr. 2025
• Times of upheaval can draw us towards the past, Dr. Abeyta says.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• But off the court, there were a number of points of upheaval that risked the culture for which Snyder had worked so hard.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
• The fifth fair took place in 1967, a year of seismic cultural upheaval.
  — Gillian Bagwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• If so, would such a network have been able to survive the upheaval of these final weeks?
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2021
• The sudden upheaval in Cadillac-think stems from two sources.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2023
• The last thing the country needs is its third major economic upheaval in a decade and a half.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Keep in mind that often the best time to figure out a second act is when your life is in upheaval.
  — Terry Powell, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• All of that upheaval and left OSU even farther away from Michigan on the scoreboard.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• In the months leading up to the shooting, Chou dealt with upheaval in his personal life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• Fiscal upheaval One bright spot could emerge on the horizon.
  — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
• And this kind of creates a lot of like confusion and upheaval, and this is not helpful at all.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 10 May 2022
• There was no shortage of earthbound upheaval from the storm known as Eunice.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Then, in 1332 B.C.E., Tutankhamun ascended the throne at the age of eight or nine to preside over a nation in upheaval.
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2022
• But long before the upheaval of the last decade, Janet Jackson was proudly claiming her space.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Mar. 2022
• Israel’s ongoing airstrikes and Iran’s retaliation raised concerns about all-out war between the countries and propelled the region, already on edge, into even greater upheaval.
  — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025
• Amid the upheaval and exodus of longtime federal prosecutors, one quiet 10th floor office in a remote outpost of the Justice Department has come to symbolize the withering impact of changes at the agency.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 11 June 2025