How to Use turn (something) upside down in a Sentence

turn (something) upside down

idiom

• In the year 2020, the world will turn upside down and in all the chaos and destruction there will be rebirth.
  — Michaela Angela Davis, Allure, 28 Apr. 2021
• When one tike creeps through her closet door to their world, things turn upside down.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2022
• Just imagine watching the world turn upside down on an OLED.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 8 July 2020
• As the ship was starting to turn upside down, Coburn and a handful of men pulled themselves up through a side porthole.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2023
• Fill jar with birdseed, then carefully turn upside down on a bread-and-butter plate.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, Country Living, 30 July 2021
• The world is ours to turn upside down, and our divided nation needs a different story to heal.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
• Carp can live in temperature ranges that would make most other species turn upside down.
  — Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
• Remove, use spatula to loosen edges and bottom and turn upside down onto plate.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 12 May 2023
• With a new generation of students signing up to learn karate from these two former fighters, things turn upside down for everyone as past and present collide.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 2 Sep. 2020
• Isabelle Huppert stars as Erika, the titular piano teacher, who starts up an affair with one of her students and then watches her life turn upside down.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• Tammy’s appearance was a sure sign that Swanson’s life was about to turn upside down, as the couple would alternate between passionate love and fierce hatred.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• This year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024