upheaved

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 • Dec. 1, 2022

The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown upheaved many things in the U.S., including the career of DeRay Mckesson, who quit his job as an educator to become a full-time activist.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2018

Her well-to-do lifestyle is upheaved by news of her husband leaving her for another woman.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017

He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin