topsy-turvy

Example Sentences

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Luton -- best known for its airport serving budget airlines and a football team with topsy-turvy fortunes -- was for centuries an industrial town.

From Barron's

The topsy-turvy year resulted in strong demand for the banks’ trading and markets services, while dealmaking surged with an uptick in mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings of stock.

From The Wall Street Journal

It blew topsy-turvy in an eastward direction, borne by fate and the prevailing winds toward the wide, unforgiving sea.

From Literature

What appears to have started as one man’s idea of a joke has spread in recent years, with more households offering the tuber in an effort to give the festivities a topsy-turvy spin.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the topsy-turvy world of a power grid besieged by exploding demands from artificial-intelligence data centers, the economics are tilting toward geothermal.

From The Wall Street Journal