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453 examples of Upward in a sentence

This upward ascension can happen even in the face of extreme physical challenges.
That, much as the gravitational pull of the Earth slows the ascent of an apple tossed upward, the gravitational pull of each galaxy on every other must be slowing the expansion of space.
That's like tossing an apple upward and it goes up faster and faster.
So that pool of water is sending out its heat upward towards the atmosphere.
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.
If you spend enough time, it's upward, and I met people who had moved to the city 10 years ago, and who are now basically urban middle class people, so the trajectory is definitely upward.
The Great Recession ended when American GDP resumed its kind of slow, steady march upward, and some other economic indicators also started to rebound, and they got kind of healthy kind of quickly.
You can see that there is a fairly low rate of violence in the '50s and the '60s, then it soared upward for several decades, and began a precipitous decline, starting in the 1990s, so that it went back to the level that was last enjoyed in 1960.
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
Compare that with the ruling elites in both developed and developing countries, I think you'll find the Party being near the top in upward mobility.
As Lord Blackstone described it, land is protected by trespass law, for most of the history of trespass law, by presuming it protects the land all the way down below and to an indefinite extent upward.
Her mother showed me the watch with the second hand still aimed optimistically upward towards a 5:18 that would never come.
Momentum investors can find stocks on an upward trajectory via dots to the right.
Yes, both use upward and downward strokes, but have completely different baselines.
Now you're on the other side of the Earth, moving upward, and the Earth's pulling you sideways.
The ball will move upward until it gets to some highest point, then it will come back down and land in your hand again.
A mania occurs when there is an upward movement of price combined with a willingness to pay large sums of money for something valued much lower in intrinsic value.
With economic growth, countries and societies enter into a virtuous cycle of upward mobility, opportunity and improved living standards.
They drive and trap the fish upward against the ocean surface and then they rush in to dine on this pulsating and movable feast.
I carefully balanced my way upward, shifting my weight back and forth between the small smears.
You just have to be strong enough to hold on and make the movements upward.
If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said, "Well, what's going to happen to this kid?" you would have concluded that I would have struggled with what academics call upward mobility.
So upward mobility is an abstract term, but it strikes at something that's very core at the heart of the American Dream.
And one of the things we've learned, unfortunately, is that upward mobility isn't as high as we'd like it to be in this country, and interestingly, it's very geographically distributed.
So if you think of a hot-air balloon, or you look at this picture of lanterns in Thailand at a festival, you can see that hot air can propel gasses upward.
And I glanced upward, and I was just dumbstruck.
Writing the oldest book in the world was Job, and he said, "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward."
Only when you want the pressure to be released, make an upward gesture, like this, but only when you want it to be released.
And then from there, you've got to take them on a very solid, steady, upward path, right from beginning to end.
I'd entered practice in 2003, and for the first several years, it was just this steady, upward improvement in my learning curve.
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