Sentence examples for upon older from inspiring English sources

The postwar mavericks of art favored looser, more personal styles and looked upon older painters like Cropsey as dinosaurs.

This approach improves upon older, less effective tactics like "talking head" videos of agents on Web sites, Ms. Cox said.

A heroic epic, modeled upon older epics, celebrates the deeds of Nebuchadrezzar I, but unfortunately little of it is extant.

I particularly like them in the form of parabuildings which fasten upon older structures, as if precipitated there by a dense atmosphere of change.

Children swarm in the streets in these pictures – in such large families, with both parents working long hours, it fell upon older children to take care of siblings and undertake household chores.

Stratigraphers still use the two main principles established by the late 18th-century English engineer and surveyor William Smith, regarded as the father of stratigraphy: (1) that younger beds rest upon older ones and (2) different sedimentary beds contain different and distinctive fossils, enabling beds with similar fossils to be correlated over large distances.

Lenny is the homely, put-upon older sister of Meg and Babe, who in their own ways have gone to the ball — Meg by abandoning small-town Mississippi to pursue a singing career in California; Babe by marrying a rising local politician.

Tall, ponytailed, absurdly young, pushing a stroller past stripped cars and broken beer bottles and barfed-upon old snow, she might have been carrying all the hours of her day in the string bags that hung from her stroller.

New poverty builds upon old impoverishment.

Kilgallen drew upon old typography, hand-lettered signs, and the gritty urban environment of the Mission for her work.

Most cities in New England are dependent upon old infrastructure in which sanitary sewer systems combined with storm drains.