The nest was an upended wooden packing case with a door cut in front and a strip of horse blanket hanging over the door to keep the wind out.
Emerging at the head of the slough, Old Joe ran up the trickle that fed it, scrambled down the far side of the upended rocks, raced through a swamp, and took the shortest possible route back to Willow Brook.
He did not know how many pebbles he'd flicked from the upended pickle keg through the knothole and into the woodshed, but offhand he guessed there were at least four bushels, and he didn't even want to think about another one.
I saw goggling, protruding eyes; an orifice that could have been a nose, and a gash upended for a vertical mouth.
The weird, brown-scaled face of Wyk, with its popping eyes upon stems and its upended mouth, contorted with surprise.
A nose orifice, with two protruding brown eyes above it was set outward on stems, and an upended slit of a mouth.
One of my arms was free and I struck with my fist at the gaping, upended mouth.
From the upended slit of mouth in that goggling face, came a scream.
With one stroke of the pick I upended several more yellow bars.
Too high for me to reach, I presently found a large box which I upended cautiously until it lay beneath the port.
My old friends, the sacroiliac joints, feel as tight as drumheads, and they creak ominously when I shift to a sitting position with my back propped up on the chimney's upended butt, the aluminum skirting cool as a kiss on my skin.
An inflatable wading pool sat in the middle of his living room, flanked by an upended coffee table and his sofa, standing on its ear.
He took off his coat, hung it on the back of a chair, upended his hat and sat down with a tired smile.
The detective upendedthe cup, drank deeply, then passed it over to Delaney.
After a second or two of fumbling he upended a flat steamer trunk.
An upended box, littered with bills of merchandise and a ledger or two, stood against the wall.
The ploughman sat down on an upended box and lit his pipe; Micky’s Jim took the squad back to the byre, which was now fairly clean, and proceeded to make bunks for the night.
Terry stood near an upended pile, numb with disappointment over the expected cablegram.
Awakened, it upended in a sluggish dive, the heavy flirt of its great glistening tail smashing the left outrigger and drenching them to the skin.
The two swooped together in front of Taber's cage and went down in a heap as the puck upended and rolled to the sideboards.
The prevailing formation is that of upended cordwood, but there are endless weird stratifications and lamiations, with here and there queer nuclei that suggest sulphur crystallizations.
If the path of the destroyer was encountered low down, near the river, the way onward led over a fifty-feet-high pile of upended trees, boulders and sand.
Just what was responsible for this queer maze of upended trees it would be hard to say.
Did you ever see the blanket-wrapped package upended in your garage?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: downright; erect; rampant; rearing; upraised; upright; upstanding; vertical
