upheave

Example Sentences

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“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.

From Washington Post

But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

From Seattle Times

A little later, he sees that the disk had disappeared and “in its place was a billow of blood, for so it looked, a vast upheaved billow of glowing blood surging on the horizon.”

From Washington Post

The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

From The New Yorker

The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten.

From Literature