How to Use upshot in a Sentence

upshot

noun
  • The upshot is that Rose and Peter move in with George and Phil.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • And then of course there's the upshot of the Washington events.
    Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The upshot was a tepid move in stock prices on Thursday.
    Heard Editors, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The upshot is that the stock is one of the cheapest in the large-cap biotech and pharma sector.
    David Wainer, WSJ, 14 June 2022
  • The upshot of all the plot twists at the end of the hour is that Axe is gone like a complete unknown.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The upshot is that trees are in short supply this year.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The upshot is that in Windows 11, there’s a great deal more space on your taskbar.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 16 June 2021
  • The upshot is, the last oyster business on the island shut down in 1959.
    Sucheta Rawal, ajc, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The upshot is a tight labor supply will be with us for much of the next 18 months.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 June 2021
  • But the upshot, for both armies fighting in Ukraine, is that this war is a bloody one.
    David Axe, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The upshot is that Bluebird needs to raise money, and fast.
    David Wainer, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The upshot is that the house has kitchens on two floors with the bigger kitchen and the dining room on the second floor.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The upshot was clear: The police keep trying to fight back, but gangs still run much of Haiti.
    Natalie Kitroeff Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the upshot from two orders Wednesday by the Supreme Court.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The upshot is that Merkel’s successor is now more likely to come from the right of the CDU.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
  • As different as the debates were, though, the upshot was the same.
    Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The upshot, says the UN, is that many people can no longer afford food.
    The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The upshot can be a simple color change on a test strip.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Slabe said the upshot of the research was not to disparage hunters.
    Christina Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The upshot is that these leaks aren’t in themselves likely to cause discord at the court.
    Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The upshot has been a rise in hotspots where people and elephants compete for space and food.
    Cari Shane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The upshot is fewer carbon emissions in the air and more carbon stored in the soil.
    Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The upshot was like, This girl doesn’t deserve to hold Jeff Beck’s guitar tuner.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021
  • An upshot of all of them: Much of what consumers would most want to know is missing.
    Robin Fields, ProPublica, 28 June 2023
  • The upshot is a loss of daily social contact, lives spent in the car and a new form of solitude.
    The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The upshot is that Blue Owl’s earnings are more predictable, its founders say.
    Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • The upshot so far has been little more than false hope for farmers.
    NBC News, 19 June 2020
  • The upshot was clear: The Fed is nowhere near declaring victory.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The upshot is a 24/7 commitment by all players to keep the goods moving.
    Sanford Stein, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The series features violence on the part of a white racist (albeit with a comedic upshot), spurious police raids, large-scale hacking of candidates’ e-mails, and plenty of ribald humor.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023

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