Example sentences for: upward

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

  • Yet, it is fair to ask whether the diversion of public funds from public schools weakens and further threatens what was once a powerful institution of upward mobility for the poor and immigrants.

  • In cases where the responses at the low toxicant concentrations are much higher than in the controls, the smoothing process may result in a large upward adjustment in the control mean.

  • The Washington Post 's story about Melvoin reported that heroin purity has risen from "as low as 4 percent in past decades to upward of 70 percent today," while the Los Angeles Times ' piece noted that heroin had gone "from 4 percent [purity] in 1980 to 40 percent in 1995."

  • R: Draw pupil's lip upward .

  • Reviewers have noted some possible sources of upward bias in the long-term studies.


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