Sentence examples for uppers the from inspiring English sources

Both of the soles had separated from the uppers, the heels were trodden entirely flat, and by the right toe, something had diagonally ripped the leather open, rendering visible the sock underneath.

During the war, when this country was, economically, on its uppers, the balance of payments deficit reached some 10%, financed by the Lend Lease arrangements with Washington and by running down our overseas assets.

Just a decade after the startup, Toosbuy fabricated most of his uppers, the part of the shoe above the sole, in Brazil.

With Vardy looking like he'd taken his downers rather than his usual uppers, the lack of needle in the game was obvious.

"We envisage T. carnifex dismembering a carcass by piercing with the lower incisors against the resistance of the uppers," the team said.

Ten years from now, you'll see her in a bar somewhere Hong Kong or New York or something and she'll tell you she was using prescription uppers the whole time she taught.

Though it was going to mean a pay cut, and a move to the land of million-dollar fixer-uppers, the job seemed to be a good way out of what was becoming a glum existence.

Blame it on $500,000 fixer-uppers, the high cost of labor, and inadequate transportation infrastructure (spelled "gridlock").

These are the starter-uppers, the restless, the let's make an impact-ers.

I cannot control the cable person, the electrician, the handyman, the trash picker-uppers, the tree trimmers, the person who's making my latte, or the air conditioning repair person.

She scavenges uppers off the bathroom floor.