Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was nowbeginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousnessdawningupon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
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Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Our "music" consisted of a bass-drum, which was tortured by the clown; a fish-hornbeautifullyplayedupon by Sam Palmer; a dinner-bell whose din was extracted by Jack Adams.
I heard her ideas and seizedupon them immediately.
he jumpedup with a strain;   the strainupon the sailboat's rigging
Utilisé au début de la phrase
Uponarrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tentpegs and had touserocks and logs to tether the tentinstead.
Upon reception, the datapackets are deshuffled by the deshuffler.
Upon the occasion of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that Grub Street wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was oftenasked, but his actualattendance in committeemeetings was not insistedupon.
Baitingfish is not illegal in this state, but stronglyfrownedupon.
Meaning of upon for the defined word.
Grammaticalement, ce mot "upon" est un adverbe, plus spécifiquement, un adverbes incomparable. C'est aussi un préposition.