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.
