Sentence examples for upon from high-quality English sources.

• What will the kind of atom depend upon?

• And we added up all that we agreed upon.

• Acting upon a proposition is behaving as though it were true.

• George Bush had the presidency thrust upon him by a single vote in the Supreme Court.

• A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.

• Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle upon one is not a miracle upon the other?

• Great nobles walked upon each side of him, making him lean upon them, and so steady his steps.

• “And the man sat upon the rock, and leaned his head upon his hand, and looked out upon the desolation.

Use upon in a sentence.

• Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses.

• Because bodies depend upon souls for their existence, and the world is God's body, the world depends upon God for its being as well as for its qualities.

• In contrast, the Active Intellect acts upon one’s intellectual soul; indeed, separate intellects are the only entities that can act upon man’s intellectual soul.

• When men shall call upon the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them and hide them—hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne!”

• I came upon them suddenly in the leafy June, and threw myself upon the turf, beneath the branches of an unknown odorous shrub, that I might doze as I contemplated the scene.

• And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels . . . upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!

• Nor is it in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, with its informed reliance upon natural rights, upon self-evident truths, and hence upon the right of revolution.

• “And the man turned his attention from the heaven, and looked out upon the dreary river Zaire, and upon the yellow ghastly waters, and upon the pale legions of the water-lilies.

upon sentence examples

• A color is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colors, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

• "Instead, this was only ever a selfish attempt by Democratic leadership in the House to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion that fell upon all Americans across the entire political spectrum upon seeing the destruction at the Capitol on January 6 by a few hundred people."

• 1 Upon the black hole Cygnus X-1 that wobbles as if boffed by an invisible companion, upon a silk stocking the color of bees rolling itself up down a leg, upon the soft dip over the clavicles, which accept only tongued kisses, upon the tongue that slowly drifts into the other’s mouth and chats there with her opposite number, gravity exerts the precise force needed.

• Its after-effects, felt within a year or two, upon the economics and morals of the country, upon the power of the old governing class, upon the dispersion of industries and the new life of towns, upon the system of farming, upon the development of the legal profession in London, and upon various other things, are a much more intricate and disputable subject, some part of which will be dealt with in the next chapter in connexion with the subsequent history of plague or its domestication upon the soil of England.