upset
Example Sentences
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With their visit cut short, she became upset.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
As in the baffling series of self-inflicted mistakes the legendary UConn women’s basketball coach inflicted on himself and his program during and after South Carolina’s 62-48 upset of the previously undefeated Huskies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
"It absolutely terrified me," she recalled, adding: "I was alone and so upset... it was humiliating."
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Ortega: If I yell in my real life, other people will go, “I know you’re upset, but it is funny.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
No one was stepping aside to make way for the girl who’d been so upset about moving.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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