Sentence examples for uppers- from inspiring English sources

The upper class on its uppers – once again exemplifying that it was still all down to who you know, where you've been, and how it's done.

But the view that Hull is on its uppers is, its defenders believe, lazy and unfair.

We can just see the patient writing out a prescription for some uppers and puts it in front of dad to sign.

They can hardly come straight out and admit that the really appealing thing about Mr Ashcroft is his bags of boodle he is the 14th richest man in Britain, in point of (what passes for) fact and that an unpopular opposition party on its uppers can ill afford to spurn a tycoon who has given it about £1m ($1.5m) a year since 1997.

And unless it were really on its uppers, a nation that let its great public buildings run to seed would justly be accused of philistinism.

That journey through the Californian desert to find fame and fortune, stocked up with "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-coloured uppers", was also, Mr Thompson claimed, "a classic confirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character".

Boer resistance was worn down and led to divisions between the bittereinders ("bitter-enders"), who wanted to continue fighting, and the hensoppers ("hands-uppers"), who voluntarily surrendered and, in some cases, worked with the British.

The ritual goes like this: In every odd-numbered year (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005), sometime around Flag Day or the Fourth of July, the House O.K.'s a constitutional amendment purporting to protect the American flag from the menace of burners, stompers, ripper-uppers, and suchlike miscreants.

Women do have much more of a role; they're not just muses or girlfriends or mopper-uppers, as they used to be.

Of the chief cutter-uppers, three are Consolidated Edison, in powdered form--the Con.

Americans are comfortable with certain kinds of moral ambiguity — hard rock and hip-hop are full of harsh conclusions and unpleasant world views — but we prefer our British bands to be picker-uppers.