1. They sat on upended wooden boxes.

2. The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.

3. He upended the beer, and swallowed.

4. She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.

5. She upended the bucket.

6. Louis upended the bundle into the rainwater-butt.

7. Tables were overturned, chairs upended.

8. She deserves better than to be upended by a drunken oaf who seems incapable of controlling his social behaviour.

9. He upended his opponent.

10. He climbed out leaving the car upended on its roof.

11. Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.

12. And when Chris Allen was upended in the area, United probably thought they were home and dry.

13. The financial crisis has upended all that.

14. But his sudden reappearance upended those efforts.

15. There are many kinds of glory. He upended the butt for another frothy mouthful.

16. However, Yar'Adua's subsequent death and Jonathan's presidency upended the power-sharing arrangement.

17. Stephen haled his upended valise to the table and sat down to wait.

18. Letters and numbers set at random around its perimeter and an upended wine glass in the centre.

19. I was in Heaven, smelling everything, grinning from east to west with the salivary promise of an upended cornucopia.

20. Revealing, among other things, three large man-sized casks on deck, upended, with lids.

21. Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It's upended whole communities.

22. Giraldez s lab, in conjunction with researchers at Cold Spring Harbor, upended that dogma when they discovered important micro-RNA activity could take place without Dicer.

23. For many of the workers, the psychological adjustment was just as difficult as the financial one, with their sense of identity and self-worth upended.

24. The result was divorce and young star whose life appeared to have been upended.

25. A recent government crackdown on predatory lending in the coastal city has upended a flourishing market: borrowing on margin to buy and then resell copper.

26. There is a rumor that the very first games were played with cigar box lids for paddles, carved champagne corks for balls, and a row of upended books for a divider in the center of the court.