13 example sentences using upset.
Upset used in a sentence
Upset in a sentence as a noun
They don't want to upset the apple cart.
And this upset me, but not for the reasons you think.
The first time it happens you'll be really upset and threaten to sue, and file a police report.
I feel genuine pain and am quite legitimately upset now.
Id be rather upset if a repo maintainer pulled something like this on me.
Upset in a sentence as a verb
I do see how some puritanical folks could be upset, because you know, sex is terrible.
The discrepancy between how much jail time the people who upset the government get, and the people who commit real crimes is getting bigger.
Do we want this power to exist, or not?You know for me, the reason I'm upset is that I grew up in school saying the pledge of allegiance.
People are upset because of this new standard of "grab everything, put it in a 'secure' location and mine it in the future for past crimes.
Man, I really feel like those who are upset about this truly wanted it to be "their Bitcoin" -- the cryptocurrency they got on the ground floor for and were hoping would turn out like BTC has.
Upset in a sentence as an adjective
It sounds from the story that the thing they're most upset about is missing an opportunity to lock down the whole airport while they dressed up as storm troopers and traipsed about in their armored doohickeys pretending to save the world.
If I am a broker who depends for his livelihood in serving a customer base that it took years to develop, I would be rightly upset if someone came in and simply handed all my customer information over to my competitors.
The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- Viva El Proletariado!What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them.
Upset definitions
an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
See also: disturbance perturbation
the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
See also: derangement overthrow
a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
See also: disorder
a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
See also: swage
the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
See also: overturn
disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
cause to lose one's composure
See also: discompose untune disconcert discomfit
cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
See also: overturn
form metals with a swage
See also: swage
defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"
See also: disquieted distressed disturbed worried
thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
See also: broken confused disordered
used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket"
See also: overturned upturned