Sentence examples for upon came from inspiring English sources

"A yellow bird/With a yellow bill," it goes, "was perched upon/ my windowsill./I lured him in/With a piece of bread/And then I smashed/His fucking head …" The lines, which looped round and through his 2004 tour of Iraq, snagged unshakeably in his mind; as he was writing the novel, the bird – suckered in then set upon – came to stand for "the lack of control soldiers have over what happens to them.

My mum was often called upon: 'Come on sister Dolores.

Hitler, upon coming to power, poured 20 million marks into Peenemunde.

Upon coming out of solution, the gases nucleate and form bubbles in the glass.

Upon coming home, he put away his coat and shoes, did his homework without prompting.

All that we are and all that we survive upon comes from the Grandmother.

Upon coming home after the war, Mr. Scudder became a reporter for The Newark Evening News.

Upon coming ashore, she attended boarding school in Prague, then college in London, where she studied international relations.

Upon coming of age, Ferdinand rejected his mother's guidance but proved to be a weak king.

Upon coming in contact with rain water these sulfates get dissolved forming hydrated salts like gypsum[35].

This ratio is most likely an underestimate since the US data it relies upon come from death certificates.