How to Use upturn in a Sentence

upturn

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  • Irma has put everyone in the state on edge and upturned the lives of millions.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The temperance movement is upturned by drinking songs and free beer passed out by the dandy minions.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Let the rich mould around Wagners parapets be upturned, and there will be found an Eloquent answer.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Feb. 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
  • The birth was difficult; the baby was breech, her face was upturned, and the umbilical cord was wrapped firmly around her neck.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • As Vallhonrat tells it, craft beer makers aren’t looking to upturn the system.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Pews upturned, wheelchairs tossed about, hymnals strewn and even a keyboard destroyed.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity.com, 11 June 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
  • 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
  • Across Kentucky, the novel coronavirus has upturned lives in countless ways.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 24 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • When upturned, what is normally an M for McDonald's becomes a W for women.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Its bigger legacy came in upturning commerce and community one app at a time.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 3 July 2017
  • 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
  • In some homes ISIS sniper nests were intact, their bulwarks of cooking-gas canisters and upturned credenzas and on-end mattresses still crammed between door jambs.
    — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • 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
  • 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 book follows the ripple effects of a random act of seemingly mundane proportions that manages to upturn everything.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • What happened in Santa Fe was just the latest in a seemingly endless string of shootings at schools, churches and movie theaters — places where Americans’ routines have been upturned with sudden gunfire and tragedy.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • Stand with Hong Kong,’’ referring to the protest movement that has upturned the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 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
  • In repose, the expression on its face is serene enough to be unsettling—perhaps because of its deep-set black eyes; its thin, pursed lips, ever so slightly upturned at the corners; and its gentle, barely perceptible brow.
    — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
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upturn

2 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most data point to an upturn in the S&P 500 after the midterm elections.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The upturn in trading was not the only good news for Goldman.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In the short term, the question remains whether the strong upturn in sales will continue and if there will be more waves of Covid-19 around the world.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • An upturn will be needed just to avoid a 100-loss finish.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • The dip in 2015 was blamed on drug deaths and an unusual upturn in the death rate for the nation's leading killer, heart disease.
    — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Apple strongly signaled an upturn to its business in China, for both the iPhone and the iPad.
    — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Lagarde also now has to deal with a stronger euro that could hamper the upturn.
    — Piotr Skolimowski, Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • In his two years leading the team, South Africa has undergone an upturn in fortunes.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
  • On Friday, a sudden upturn in the last hour of trading managed to keep the S&P 500 from logging its fourth weekly loss in a row.
    — CBS News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • An upturn in showers and thunderstorms starts tonight and threatens to stay through the weekend.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the upturn in sentiment has not yet reached the cinema sector.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • This eliminates the guesswork when elements of the business take a down or upturn.
    — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And the longer the current upturn continues, the more Americans will identify it with the 45th president rather than the 44th.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Some places, such as New York and New Jersey, are seeing a sharp upturn in their coronavirus cases.
    — Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Locksley would love a similar upturn in his third year as Maryland coach.
    — Noah Trister, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The prospects for an upturn in Year 2 are modest, which is better than microscopic.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • However, if there are signs of abatement of the crisis by the time Q2 results are announced, the company’s stock could see an upturn.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The upturn of cases statewide has strained the state’s ability to swiftly conduct contact tracing, a key component to slowing the spread of the virus.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2020

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