How to Use upshot in a Sentence

upshot

noun
  • The upshot is that some traders have looked elsewhere for rapid gains.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The upshot was that bones make no difference to the taste of a steak.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
  • The upshot so far has been little more than false hope for farmers.
    — NBC News, 19 June 2020
  • That’s the upshot of taking only one point from the past two games.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The upshot is a bit more country in her spare, rootsy mix this time around.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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 the door can open without swinging out wide as a gullwing would.
    — Jordan Golson, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Slabe said the upshot of the research was not to disparage hunters.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
  • And then of course there's the upshot of the Washington events.
    — Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The upshot has been a rise in hotspots where people and elephants compete for space and food.
    — Cari Shane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
  • As different as the debates were, though, the upshot was the same.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • 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 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 so many adult-only events has been a lot of coping, and a lot of missing out.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The upshot is a tight labor supply will be with us for much of the next 18 months.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 June 2021
  • 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 fewer carbon emissions in the air and more carbon stored in the soil.
    — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The upshot is the elections of the board president and the other two were faulty.
    — Dallas News, 14 July 2019
  • 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 Autopilot might, in fact, be saving a ton of lives.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 May 2018
  • 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 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, says the UN, is that many people can no longer afford food.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The upshot is that Blue Owl’s earnings are more predictable, its founders say.
    — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • The upshot of the memo was that the 2016 election was Biden’s to lose.
    — David Kamp, The Hive, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The upshot is that Rose and Peter move in with George and Phil.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • That’s the upshot from two orders Wednesday by the Supreme Court.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The upshot was like, This girl doesn’t deserve to hold Jeff Beck’s guitar tuner.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 1 Dec. 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 24/7 commitment by all players to keep the goods moving.
    — Sanford Stein, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021

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