How to Use upturn in a Sentence

upturn

1 of 2 verb
  • On the final two holes, though, his round upturned like an old umbrella in a stiff breeze.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016
  • Irma has put everyone in the state on edge and upturned the lives of millions.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Pews upturned, wheelchairs tossed about, hymnals strewn and even a keyboard destroyed.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity.com, 11 June 2017
  • The temperance movement is upturned by drinking songs and free beer passed out by the dandy minions.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Queen Macbeth offered the chance to upturn the potent myth in Shakespeare’s play.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As Vallhonrat tells it, craft beer makers aren’t looking to upturn the system.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Its bigger legacy came in upturning commerce and community one app at a time.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 3 July 2017
  • The scorpion can be seen dangling upturned from the spider's sticky web, wriggling its body and struggling to gain freedom.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2017
  • Across Kentucky, the novel coronavirus has upturned lives in countless ways.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Let the rich mould around Wagners parapets be upturned, and there will be found an Eloquent answer.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
  • While putting the cocktail together, Sanchez upturns the serving glass over a piece of smoldering wood to capture a bit more smoke.
    — Maggie Hoffman, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
  • Arizona scored three times in the inning and created enough distance to capture this series and leave the Dodgers' process upturned.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • People who prefer parkas that don’t upturn and shield from above the shoulders to shins might win the argument on which waterproof covering works best.
    — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2021
  • The key issue at hand is whether the high court will upturn its 25-year-old ruling that prohibits the collection of taxes from online sales.
    — John Sharp, AL.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The irritability, whining and tantrums pile up during a nap-free afternoon, which can upturn a household.
    — Craig Canapari, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Meanwhile, populists from across the spectrum itched to upturn the comfy order that those in Brussels were attempting to build.
    — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Following the death of her father in La Guaira, Venezuela, Wilburn was left without means, her life upturned.
    — Penny Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • When upturned, what is normally an M for McDonald's becomes a W for women.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The book follows the ripple effects of a random act of seemingly mundane proportions that manages to upturn everything.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Serve It Proudly Before your friends come over, put your masterpiece on display and upturn the bottle of vodka into it.
    — Paula Forbes, GQ, 20 June 2018
  • Hundreds of residents have shown up at local government meetings, voicing concerns that the plant will upturn their daily lives and harm the local water supply.
    — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Favorites were held or humbled, outsiders came from nowhere to upturn the form guide, late winners broke hearts and provided fresh hope and the landscape of many groups tilted entirely from what was expected.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
  • For the most recent the fall ‘20 runway show last February, Michele upturned the fashion show structure completely.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 19 May 2020
  • But the pandemic’s unprecedented scope has upturned conventional norms.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • When her bandages are taken off, the audience sees that nothing appears wrong with her face — until the other characters are taken out of the shadows and have upturned noses and giant, twisted mouths.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The property lost and lives upturned have rightly been the priority for recovery efforts following last month’s Coyote Creek flood.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2017
  • That has accelerated in recent years as the Iraq war and the Arab Spring uprisings upturned the regional order and gave both nations new ways to extend their reach.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2016
  • Look at these marchers, some with faces upturned with wonderment and discovery, some with arms raised to clap, some scowling and angry; some seeking militant visibility and some turning bashfully from the camera.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • Stand with Hong Kong,’’ referring to the protest movement that has upturned the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Most notably, the hints that surfaced at the party that ended season 1 would’ve been maybe investigated a little further and talked about, but then there’s this huge tragic event that rocked the community and upturned everyone’s lives.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 June 2019

upturn

2 of 2 noun
  • The upturn in form helped in those long weeks between games.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
  • That has led to a huge upturn in the value of older cards as well.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 May 2021
  • And there are worrying signs that the upturn could soon run out of steam.
    — David Goodman, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • An upturn will be required soon if the club is to make a run at a playoff spot.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2019
  • As Ruiz’s luck starts to even out, look for his stats to take an upturn across the board.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
  • This stock is one of the few that features an upturn in monthly momentum.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Lagarde also now has to deal with a stronger euro that could hamper the upturn.
    — Piotr Skolimowski, Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The upturn in trading was not the only good news for Goldman.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But Bruce was quick to stress that fans and players cannot get carried away with the recent upturn in form.
    — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Even if wages are rising as fast, or even faster, an inflation upturn can unnerve people.
    — James Pethokoukis, The Week, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Locksley would love a similar upturn in his third year as Maryland coach.
    — Noah Trister, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • An upturn in showers and thunderstorms starts tonight and threatens to stay through the weekend.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • But the upturn in sentiment has not yet reached the cinema sector.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The upturn marks the reversal of a prolonged slump in business-loan growth that began in earnest about two years ago.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • Still, while the upturn will offer some respite to northern cities, the longer trend is likely to remain intact.
    — Chong Koh Ping, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • Energy companies rose more than the rest of the market, riding a big upturn in crude oil prices.
    — Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Cynics cannot even point to an easy fixture schedule as the reason for the upturn in results, either.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The upturn follows a sharp decrease in cases that came on the heels of a summer surge driven by the delta variant.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Economists hailed the numbers as signs of a healthy economic upturn.
    — Casey Harper, Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The upturn is better than many colleges were forecasting over the summer as the delta variant surged.
    — Collin Binkley and Philip Marcelo, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But there’s certainly been a bit of an upturn in form with a few people as well, which is really welcome.
    — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This eliminates the guesswork when elements of the business take a down or upturn.
    — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In his two years leading the team, South Africa has undergone an upturn in fortunes.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The strong upturn in productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, is not expected to last.
    — Martin Crutsinger, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • That’s like taking credit for jobs when there’s a national economic upturn.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • However, there is no guarantee that talks would find common ground between the two sides, nor lead to any lasting upturn in ties.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The prospects for an upturn in Year 2 are modest, which is better than microscopic.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Millennials’ nostalgia for the video games of their youth might be driving the sharp upturn in prices, Kohler says.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
  • This turnaround in momentum may be the beginning of a broader market upturn.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Most data point to an upturn in the S&P 500 after the midterm elections.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022

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