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Example sentences for "turned upside"

  • While they had been thus variously employed, a troop of apes had visited the tent, and when they returned, they found the place ransacked and turned upside down.

  • With respect to the above twisting movement of cotyledons, Frank has given many and much more striking instances in the case of the leaves on [page 440] branches which had been fastened in various positions or turned upside down.

  • The hypocotyl protrudes through the seed-coats as a rectangular projection, which grows rapidly into an arch like the letter U turned upside down; the cotyledons being still enclosed within the seed.

  • A number of slabs S S S are then placed side by side to bring out the width of the crank further; these being welded down, the piece is turned upside down, and the process repeated on the other side.

  • For the flanks of the teeth setting numbers are obtained from a separate table, and the instrument is turned upside down, and the tangent line D F, Fig.

  • If he finds one, he performs a nameless operation in a certain part of the yard, and covers the spot with the tub, turned upside down.

  • What I tried to sit on turned upside down, and what I tried to hold by instantly gave way, and always in the direction of overboard.

  • If the dead be young the screen must be turned upside-down; but this is not done in the case of old people.

  • A burning torch that’s turned upside down; The word, ‘Quod me alit, me extinguit.

  • If these seductions (as young fools call them) could be had without money, the world would soon be turned upside down.

  • This strike has so altered the course of things that the whole order of ordinary events is turned upside down.

  • An old tin slop-pail, turned upside down, stood in the corner of the hearth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstain from; aged forty; blood vessels; constitutional government; excellent paper; had come; listening intently; parcel post; state and local governments; though not; till then; true prophet; turned around; turned aside; turned away; turned back; turned himself; turned into; turned loose; turned over; turned pale; turned quickly; turned sharply; turned suddenly; turned under; turned upon