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Sentence count:204+15Posted:2017-02-06Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: upupupwardupwardlyupwardsSimilar words: upwardly mobilewardawardforwardtowardcowardwardeninwardMeaning: ['ʌpwə(r)d]  adj. 1. directed up 2. extending or moving toward a higher place. adv. 1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position 2. to a later time. 
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121. The wick flickered hesitantly, then licked upward into a bright yellow tongue.
122. Authority gravitated upward, and those on the field felt their ability to make decisions slip away.
123. The shit that could be on his mind drifts upward and stays up there until he finally stands still.
124. This chapter begins by considering three basic directions for expressing power in Organizations-downward, upward, and sideways.
125. The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.
126. There must have been thousands upon thousands of small fish driven upward to the surface by hordes of squid feeding from below.
127. In a society that valued upward mobility, formal education became a gateway to economic and social success.
128. Then she rears upward, and up it comes, naked and pink, her hairy baby, its stump bright red.
129. The airline industry's troubles are a mere hiccup in an otherwise upward growth trend.
130. Gently stroke the entire face with gentle upward movements as in Step 4. 14.
131. On the upward curve over the first down the lorry was forced to a crawl.
132. His tiny feet in their clumsy boots came down tippy-toe, pushed against the floor, and floated upward again.
133. Candles cast an upward glow over the mellow golden paintings.
134. Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides.
135. He can live in and accept the natural world, yet his soul lofts upward.
136. A blockage in the movement upward and out of the underclass will not be accepted.
137. Marriage here would seem to have been both cause and effect of upward social mobility.
138. Behind her head the television lost its vertical hold and the picture scrolled slowly upward.
139. Between 1971-8 and 1978-84 the largest upward shifts in rates of population change all occurred in Inner London boroughs.
140. Most likely it was the continued upward pressure on the sterling exchange rate over the weekend.
141. The nystagmus consists of coarse oscillations that remain in the horizontal plane, even on upward and downward movements of the eyes.
142. A flat organizational structure, appropriate to a professional group, reflects the high priority given to upward power.
143. Your spirits can sore with the skyscrapers beckoning upward, upward.
144. I find this a powerful image-the Divine reaching down,[sentence dictionary] humanity reaching upward.
145. In other words, men tended to seek polygamy, whereas women strove to marry upward with men of high status.
146. The road crawled upward toward the place where the saddle emptied into sky.
147. These rates did not soar because there was a sudden upward adjustment in thirty-year inflationary expectations.
148. On each occasion, though, the upward journey took longer, the years and events making the burden more cumbersome.
149. His left hand flashes upward, and he knocks my gun aside with his forearm.
150. Linear and quadratic time trends were included to control for the upward trend in volume.
More similar words: upwardly mobilewardawardforwardtowardcowardwardeninwardhardwareawkwardinwardsleewardwardrobeinwardlyeastwarduntowardrewardingput forwardafterwardawkwardnessbring forwardlook forward tostraightforwardend up withput up withcome up withmeet up withkeep up withcatch up withwar
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