How to Use upside down in a Sentence

upside down

adverb

• You hung the picture upside down!
• The baby was holding the book upside down.
• To remove the plant, turn the pot upside down and tap gently on the bottom to loosen it.
• Place the pan upside down on the top rack in your oven.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
• In the blink of an eye, our world can be turned upside down.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 21 July 2023
• But his life would be turned upside down before the end of the night.
  — April Helms, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• The raft was upside down and Erin and the pilot didn't see any signs of life.
  — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 21 May 2021
• At farms across the nation, the Dutch flag hangs upside down as a sign of protest.
  — Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• The roof of the gym was ripped off while cars in the parking lot were tossed and flipped upside down.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Place the skillet upside down on the top rack of your hot oven for one hour.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
• It’s like the upside down version of the hills of Adelaide.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• For many of them their lives have been turned upside down.
  — Ivy Knight, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2022
• For all of us, the world turned upside down in early March 2020.
  — Michael Klein, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2021
• Hill turned that game upside down as a rookie with the Chiefs.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2023
• Luke is 5 years old, and that turns your life upside down.
  — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
• Turn the snow globe upside down over the sink to make sure it is fully sealed.
  — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2021
• Flip your glass upside down on top of the rosemary to capture the smoke.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
• Just keep in mind that his whole world has been turned upside down.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
• To wrap your gift: Place your box upside down on the paper.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
• Her face was scratched off, and the photo was placed upside down.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 June 2024
• But Somerville wants to turn the process upside down, by acting first.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
• Then turn it upside down and slide the plant out into your hand.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2025
• But that was before 2020 — the year that turned Louisville upside down.
  — USA Today, 12 Mar. 2021
• But notice that the spots on the screen are upside down relative to the lights.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
• But the night before takeoff, everything was flipped upside down.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
• Brittany would later try to convince me to ride the last line upside down.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• There the new images reveal an odd structure that resembles an upside down question mark.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
• Rotund ewes are sometimes prone to getting pinned upside down in hollows by their own weight.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• What followed next turned markets upside down.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• Photos from local news outlets show a plane upside down in a parking lot, just a few feet away from parked cars.
  — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026