Example sentences for: uphill

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

  • Though now in disuse, it consists of a trench three feet deep, on sloping land, with a retaining wall on the uphill side.

  • Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.

  • Perhaps the court can ultimately be persuaded to draw a distinction between the two; it would, I think, be an uphill battle, but perhaps a winnable one, and I wish free-speech hawks all the best on it.

  • Across the river are the Convento de Santa Clara-a-Velha (Old St. Claire Convent, long under extensive restoration aimed at rescuing it from the river), where the lifeless Inês de Castro was crowned (see page 45), and the newer, uphill Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova (New Convent), where the silver tomb of Isabel, the sainted queen of Dom Dinis, is located.

  • He was still tied for the lead, but that didn't matter, since the devastation of missing that putt ensured that, on the 18 th , facing an almost identically easy putt, three feet straight uphill, he didn't even catch any lip, missed it wide left, game over.


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