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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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151. To make up for the consequent loss in revenue, the government revamped the tax structure, revising it upward.
152. He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.
153. And Thomas Hudson, born as poor as herself and just as upward mobile, was gentility personified, sensibility made flesh.
154. This in turn had exerted the upward pressure on bank interest rates which the government was now trying to counter.
155. Bad news for consumers: on balance, the higher the figure, the greater the upward pressure on prices.
156. Jeff is already a victim but his actions could alter the balance and restore the upward mobility of his career. 2.
157. Remember that the teeth run in an upward direction and the last tooth sits a couple of inches below the eye.
158. Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend.
159. I adjust the value upward from 1967 dollars to 1978 dollars. 6.
160. She held the lead and quietly plodded upward through the crisp snow that covered the long Baskan Glacier.
161. From a forward fighting stance, the student swings his rear leg forward and upward until the knee comes to shoulder height.
162. Similarly, at interest rates below Oi l, the excess demand for money exerts upward pressure on interest rates.
163. He scrabbled and flung refuse this way and that and finally he turned his eyes upward.
164. People tend to adjust the volume upward as their ears become accustomed to a given sound intensity.
165. Onward and upward the track wound, clinging to the side of the ridge like a pale slippery centipede.
166. More recently, multinationals and foreign capital, with all their implications, have made vertical upward mobility difficult.
167. They saw Ruth's crumpling face, and at once the lips curved upward, laughing, and sang louder.
168. Instead it has numerous beehive-shaped patches of shingled sulfides where high-temperature water streams upward.
169. In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward.
170. To maintain the upward momentum, Parke must keep his ambitions high, yet keep his feet on the ground.
171. She threw her hands up in the air and leaned back, stretching, arching her chest upward.
172. This would drag the underlying asthenosphere along and promote a compensatory upward movement within the mantle under mid-oceanic ridges.
173. Slowly he began his journey upward, helplessly I waited to lend him my assistance.
174. In all three areas[sentencedict.com/upward.html], the numbers showed a steady upward trend.
175. As Joe scrambled to his feet, Rex shouted and pointed upward.
176. The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.
177. Somewhere around 1973, the upward movement in family incomes stalled.
178. He stops combing upward and begins to shape the hairs in the cup of the palm of his hand.
179. Social mobility can be upward, for example moving from the working to the middle class, or downward.
180. In a turbulent flow of air near the surface local upward currents may lift a sand grain.
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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