Example sentences for: downward

How can you use “downward” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For example, adjusting for age differences between subjects in the economic studies and those affected by air pollution may imply the need to adjust the $6 million VSL downward, but the involuntary nature of air pollution-related risks and the lower level of risk-aversion of the manual laborers in the labor market studies may imply the need for upward adjustments.

  • Although counting education and R&D as investment would raise the measured level of investment, this broader measure of investment has also experienced a downward trend.

  • Such children often have an elevated mortality risk and their exclusion may bias estimates child mortality (both level and inequality) downward.

  • More to the point, there are lots of tech stocks that have done really well and then been severely punished, and on any given day what you're most likely to see is not a move upward or downward in which everyone's participating, but a surprising mix of moves.

  • In fact, there was virtually no downward distribution of wealth during the New Deal or in the 50 years after World War II--and only a modest downward distribution during World War II, caused not by taxation but by economic growth and rising wages.


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