Sentence examples for was upper from inspiring English sources
noun
That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- As the restless sleeper here, I'll take the lower berth. You take the upper.
The neighborhood was upper middle class: The mayor and the governor's mother lived nearby.
In 1971 Rolls-Royce faced bankruptcy and was partly nationalised and bailed out, as was Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.
According to Mr. Heiskell, his mother's family was "upper crust" and his father's family was "sort of middle crust".
Several United Nations members have changed their names, including Sri Lanka, which was Ceylon until 1972, and Burkina Faso, which was Upper Volta until 1984.
His father, Billy, was upper working-class, a junior civil servant in the ministry of defence and an avid reader of the Daily Mail.
"As soon as he hit it you knew it was upper deck, and you just wanted to enjoy it," Boston's Dante Bichette said.
Juliette's family was upper-class Protestant.
The other was that it was upper-case M and lower-case t.
Ruth Kluger's family was upper-middle-class; her father was a gynecologist and pediatrician, her mother a nurse.
Patricia was upper-middle class; her father, Sir Helenus Milmo QC, had been a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
He was upper-class and he never forgot it, whereas Grant — or rather, Archie Leach — was born into poverty and willed himself into a debonair.
