turn upside down
Example Sentences
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With eyes set either side of their heads, sperm whales have to turn upside-down, like this female, for a 3D view of us.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2018
They also cease to make use of perfumes, koḥl, and ḥennà; and often turn upside-down the carpets, mats, cushions, and coverings of the deewáns.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
You will have the whole affair comprised in a line or two; and even these few lines you twist about and turn upside-down just as you take it in your heads.'
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
