Improbable win

Usage examples of upset.

But the strongest argument in their favour was that adduced by Lord Althorp, which was to the effect, that, if his motion were lost, it would upset the ministry.

Not only was she a despicable, needy-for-a-man wimp, but there was a chance - admittedly small - that she had upset Katherine.

The train steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset.

The breeze upset them, the eddies near the ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut upset them.

Quite true what the alienists said: celibacy was extremely bad for you, as bad as going without proper diet or exercise or meditation, and as likely to upset your mental equilibrium.

Frik Van Alman would be more upset about not regaining the artifact than he would ever have been about losing the oil rig.

It is probably apocryphal since, according to Clery, Louis in fact expected to see Malesherbes again and became increasingly upset at his absence in the days that followed.

Maybe the argument had upset her, caused her to blow the most important audition of her career.

Petya was most unhappy and was amazed to see that Auntie, far from being upset or down-hearted, gave the impression of everything being fine.

More ominously, the activist Shia Islam preached by the leader of the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, threatened to upset the delicate Sunni-Shia balance in Iraq, and a hostile Iran would threaten Iraqi security in the Gulf.

Darla was upset by the incident of the Bandersnatch, her suspicions about Corey Rhizome were fully confirmed a few months later when Kellee Kaarp came over to visit.

American production schedules had been upset in April 1942 to give top priority to landing and beaching craft for the cross-Channel operation that was canceled, and again in January 1943 schedules were upset to give top priority to ships for antisubmarine warfare.

The sickness upset them for the day, so that the force remained there, at bivouac in the village, until the next morning.

When Billy saw her go he ran down the altar steps, upsetting a near-sighted deacon who was coming up to help drive him out, and bleating to Betty that he was coming he rushed through the door.

He longed desperately for bracky, and had to keep reminding himself that no drugs must upset the tests.