When near the place where he expects to find seals, the hunter stops the team and takes the implements from the sledge, which is then turned upside down.
The spear is stuck into the snow at the entrance of the house, the sledge is turned upside down, and the ice coating is removed from the runners.
When the boat has been pulled on shore, it is turned upside down and the whole bottom is cleaned with this implement.
They paid no regard to whether a post was well filled or not: here they are set upside down.
Whereupon the piously connected man, escape impossible now, began to emit a low subterranean rumble, like the initial utterances of a bottle full of water when it is turned upside down.
And he could see through the window of the door, upside down as it was, the sparkling sunshine, never so beautiful before.
As it was he had to swing both arms to keep his feet, and as he did so the turtle fell upside down in the drier mud a few feet back from shore.
Those letters were printed wrong way around in the mud up near that log when the turtle fell off the log upside down," Tom continued soberly.
Probably he thought that it would interfere with his climbing trees or perhaps fall off when he was hanging upside down from some treacherous limb or scrambling head foremost down some dizzy cliff.
Llewellyn, the Humpty-dumpty of the animal world, had slid off the log, alighting upside down.
What kind of a crazy bird is this that lives upside down in a house that looks like a bat.
Presently out came the invaders with their loot, one with a picture, another with a vase, another bearing the gramophone upside down.
The tube is hung perpendicularly, but closed at the top and open at the bottom; in fact, it represents a bramble-stump turned upside down.
Resin plays no part in the mass; and we have only to pierce the lid and turn the shell upside down for the barricade to come dribbling to the ground.
To ward off the difficulty, I again turned a wine-glass upside down and rested my ear upon it.
The knocks continuing, I turned a wine-glass upside down, and placed my ear upon it, as upon a stethoscope.
A plaster cast of the Alps turned upside down, so as to invert the elevations and depressions, would exhibit blunter and broader mountains, with narrower valleys between them, than the present ones.
The drawings show the planet as it appeared in the telescope, inverted, and they must be turned upside down if we wish the points of the compass to appear as upon a terrestrial map.
Turn the map around, upsidedown if necessary, until the stars upon it match the brighter ones in the sky.
In the centre of this multitude I see a huge rice-mortar turned upside down; and presently a sandalled peasant leaps upon it lightly, and stands there--with an open paper umbrella above his head.
One brought skins to be cut into dresses, another wanted a jacket, a third a pattern, while a fourth brought his jacket sewedupside down, and asked why it did not fit.
A is a fairly deep box turned upside down, with a circle cut out into which the mantle-box fits closely.
B is a box turned upside down and placed in front of that containing the sand-wheel.
A is a match-box turned upside down to which are gummed two corks which have been filed to make them perfect cylinders (B and C in Fig.
The engine is a match-box turned upside down, to which is gummed a cork covered with red or green paper.
The old Californians, who were fond of lazing about in the sun, and smoking a pipe, laid it to those Yankee devils who had turned everything upside down.
B had a pine tree depicted on his breast--upside down, its roots indicated by some outlines up at the top; the picture was of a brownish rather than a blueish shade.
To start, it turned the clock tower upside down, broke a clock, then opened a cupboard in the sacristy in which there were various articles, and broke them all.
I have sent five messages by my man to let Mrs. Brown know that I have been waiting for my breakfast these two hours; but this confounded ball has turned everything upside down!
A wolf had found out the cache and was beginning to tear the packages to pieces, in spite of my care in turning the hand sledge upside down on the top of them.
I had to cache most of the stores we were bringing; but they are safe enough, for I turned the little sledge upside down on the top of them, so I guess neither wolf nor wolverine will be able to get at them to tear the packets to pieces.
When they came to my house they would turn all the ornaments upside down.
Nearly everything in that unfortunate garden had been planted upside down.
These men that turn the world upsidedown have come hither also.
Thermometer rose to blood heat--having been turned upside down by an infant.
The Ant-Eater is as hairy as a goat, and all along the ridge of his neck he carries a long frill of hair that stands upright, short and thick, like a long plate-brush turned upside down.
I know rather better than others how the world wags; I have been shaken about in it, upsideand down, round and round and round, like a cork in an empty bottle.
Other Supers apply their mugs to the bunghole and drink, previously holding them upside down.
He wondered vastly that they had not contrived to stick his name into the affidavits which had that day come in, and which seemed to have turned Mr. Quirk's head upside down!
But when you want to look at objects here on the earth’s surface you want to see them as they are and not upside down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clerestory; roof; rooftop; surface; topside
