Sample Sentences for
invert
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    She inverted the "M" to make a "W".
    inverted = turned upside down
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    It showed Isla Nublar as an inverted teardrop, bulging at the north, tapering at the south.  (source)
    inverted = upside down
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    I ran my hand up the racy invert line of the hood as I drove the tangled highways in a general homeward direction.†  (source)
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    Time on Camazotz seems to be inverted, turned in on itself.†  (source)
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    It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.†  (source)
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    To share lodgings with a brilliant dinner-companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.†  (source)
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    Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed.†  (source)
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    Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow—somewhat in the pose of a well-known conception of Titian's—talked up at Elizabeth-Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm.†  (source)
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    I open and close my eyes a few times, but the world remains inverted.†  (source)
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    And when he died, whatever the circumstances, they would suddenly, all those elements that despised his unchecked power—they would invert their distrust and begin to float rumors that the Director himself was the victim of a wry homicide planned and carried out by unknown parties in the vast and layered webwork of the state.†  (source)
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    The song became audible through much repetition; the choir was repeating and inverting the names of deities.†  (source)
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    Some are lying; some stand erect, this on his head, and that on his soles; another like a bow inverts his face to his feet.†  (source)
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    However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.†  (source)
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