upend
verb (used with object)
to set on end, as a barrel or ship.
were upending
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past progressiveof upend.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Several explained in Spanish that the vending ordinances were upending a food service many residents appreciate and see as part of their heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Burdened by hastily packed, bulging suitcases and cast out of their own homes by circumstances that were upending history, they were tiny, vulnerable figures dwarfed by the long roads and huge skies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
To avoid a damaging railroad strike, negotiators had to resolve a central issue: schedules that workers said were upending their personal lives.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
But the trend lines in general were upending eons of power relations between men and women at the most intimate, domestic level.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2022
Last year, as Google and Samsung were upending the Android smartwatch space, Huawei also announced it was launching the Huawei Watch 3 on a new proprietary operating system called HarmonyOS 2.
From The Verge ● May 18, 2022
