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624 examples of Downward in a sentence

But the more we learn about aging, the clearer it becomes that a sweeping downward course is grossly inaccurate.
I mean, you know, it was interesting, because I spent basically two years hanging out in this city, Dongguan, and over that time, you could see immense change in every person's life: upward, downward, sideways, but generally upward.
That last downward notch in the red line is not actual data.
The record is always trending downward, but it's punctuated by these steep cliffs.
My friends, many in their 50s and 60s, were looking at a downward mobility, a work-for-life proposition, just a job loss, medical diagnosis or divorce away from insolvency.
Just a vicious downward spiral.
Combined with the novel’s magical realism, this produces a sense of history as a downward spiral the characters seem powerless to escape.
Yes, both use upward and downward strokes, but have completely different baselines.
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward.
These carry it downward into the hollow organ known as the bladder.
The moving parts that make one side of the wheel heavier also shift its center of mass downward below the axle.
This is what I mean by a poor handhold: an edge smaller than the width of a pencil but facing downward that I had to press up into with my thumb.
We cannot see where it's going, but the general direction is very inevitable: it's downward.
If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life.
Only when you want the pressure to go back, make a downward gesture.
The aquifer formed when snow melts in the summer sun and trickles downward.
Cities need to know when not to build, so as not to reproduce urban sprawl and slums of downward accountability.
And his political career in the state legislature was on a downward slide.
You don't see her eyes; they're looking downward.
It's like scuba diving into a coral reef, except you're going upward instead of downward.
And what happens is that as we turn increasingly to rules, rules and incentives may make things better in the short run, but they create a downward spiral that makes them worse in the long run.
Its one of the worst movies I've ever seen, with every quantifiable metric spiraling dismally downward, much like a waterlogged turd in the perpetual, slow whirlpool of a broken Rest Stop toilet.
Jamie Lynn Spears is useless for acting, singing and anything else she attempts for that downward spiral she calls a career.
Translated to vortex, Uzumaki is about just that- an irrational and overabundant tribute to the strange downward spiral into nothingness that has seemingly captivated a whole small town into dementia obsessed lunatics.
Unfortunately, from there, the movie entered into a downward spiral.
The most disturbing scene in the entire movie is perhaps when Speck stomps one of the eight unfortunate nurses to death in her own bathtub, yet even this is merely implied, and not shown, save for a few unconvincing downward thrusts of Mr. Speck's leg.
I agree with the comments regarding the downward spin.
In the middle of the 2nd Season things start unraveling and the once terrific and fascinating series spirals downward, mostly because Roddenberry had died and was not around to guide the producers, of whom his wife Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was co-producer.
Although one of them starts off with the best intentions, they will both soon find themselves in an unending downward spiral.
A man is ostracized from his upper middle class family due to emotional and economic problems, and proves unable to control his downward spiral.
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