upward

Definition:
1. Directed up.
2. Extending or moving toward a higher place.
3. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position.
4. To a later time.

Use 'upward' in a sentence:

• 1. It is predicted that the number of visitors will continue its upward trend.
• 2. It costs upward of$ 40,000 a year to keep some prisoners in prison.
• 3. As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front—an upward movement of the nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life—is being pushed further south.
• 4. Dispelling researchers' initial doubts, computer models have confirmed that this formation is buoyant enough to rise slowly within the mantle and strong enough to push Africa upward as it rises.
• 5. She gave him a quick, upward look, then lowered her eyes.
• 6. Some San Jose residents say that as inequality has grown in recent years, upward mobility has become much more difficult to achieve.
• 7. However, being part of a larger program does create differences for project managers along the upward dimension.
• 8. The chopper shot upward in a manoeuvre matched by the other pilot.
• 9. This is an upward slope.
• 10. Indeed, several studies based on private-sector firms find that women' s mobility prospects improve, rather than decline, as they climb upward in corporate hierarchies.
• 11. It's also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates.
• 12. Interest rates generally have been declining since last spring, despite a few upward blips in recent weeks.
• 13. Vines spiraled upward toward the roof.
• 14. From today's vantage point, the 1987 crash seems just a blip in the upward progress of the market.
• 15. Leaphorn eased himself silently upward.
• 16. The value of a college degree is diminishing, and our upward mobility is declining.
• 17. Prices have an upward tendency.
• 18. An upward movement ( especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
• 19. The upward trend implies that the level of qualifications of educators who qualified after 2000 is higher than the level before 1980.
• 20. They also do not have access to quality health care or other prerequisites for upward social mobility.
• 21. It represented upward social and financial mobility.
• 22. The incipient lethal temperature are shifted upward by acclimation to warmer temperature.
• 23. For most of the last decade, this trend has been upward, except for the most severe periods of credit crunch.
• 24. Downward and upward pressures on a currency are not symmetrical.
• 25. Arms bend. Arms upward. Wait for it. Stretch.
• 26. There is an upward trend in the number of people choose to travel abroad.
• 27. There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
• 28. In American history, immigrants used to have a good chance to move upward in society.
• 29. They also do not have access to quality health care, or other prerequisites for upward social mobility.
• 30. The market showed an upward turn in july.
• 31. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky.
• 32. From here, it has been onward and upward all the way.
• 33. Oil prices continued an upward swing in New York this morning.
• 34. Prices are tending upward [ downward].
• 35. To appreciate the magnificence of the mountain, you have to look upward in most cases while to enjoy the fascinating landscape of Huangshan, you've got to look downward.
• 36. As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front—an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life—is being pushed further south.
• 37. Downward movement is much faster than upward one.
• 38. Smoke is curling upward from kitchen chimneys.
• 39. Bad lighting design allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky.
• 40. Vines spiralled upward toward the roof.
• 41. This year saw a continuation in the upward trend in sales.
• 42. Unemployment will continue upward for much of this year.
• 43. She started once again on the steep upward climb.
• 44. Fill in gaps by using short, upward strokes of the pencil.
• 45. Toad found himself flying through the air with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow.
• 46. When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished.
• 47. They climbed upward along the steep cliffs surrounding the village.
• 48. The inpocketed vegetal pole cells develop into a sheet of cells which grows upward and eventually encloses a cavity, the archenteron.