Sentence examples for been put upon from inspiring English sources
verb
To place something somewhere.
- She put her books on the table.
The Legation Quarter has been put upon siege basis.
"But I don't feel that I've been put upon".
"We are called upon to right a great injustice, a great wrong that has been put upon the American people".
I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone.
"Nothing has been more satisfactory in the course of the war", opined the Economist magazine on 12 June 1915", "than the steady refusal of Lord Kitchener to destroy the grand moral force of voluntary service by acceding to the social and newspaper pressure which has been put upon him to begin compulsion".
Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old Neymar can withstand the colossal pressure that has been put upon his shoulders to deliver a win for team Brazil.
Too much pressure is put upon students and school systems to prepare for and achieve on standardized tests.
"People are really angry and my sense is they're angry at Republicans, independents and Democrats because they feel that they're put upon by the ruling class," Gidwitz said.
Intense pressure is put upon students (and their parents) to create a "Mission Project" that glorifies the era and glosses over both Spanish and Mexican exploitation of Indians, as well as enslavement of those same Indians during U.S. rule.
