Up-end

"Up-end" in a Sentence (3 examples)

We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.

Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube

She turned on all the lights, swung the closed suitcase up to the table, shoved the table against the wall, up-ended the suitcase so that its leather side presented a smooth surface, and propped a firm sheet of white cardboar against the inpromptu rack.

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