Example sentences for: upwardly

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

  • Yet young and upwardly mobile islanders do go off in search of fortune, and the most successful return from Brazil, Venezuela, or South Africa to build sumptuous villas overlooking the Bay of Funchal.

  • Tony Soprano is an upwardly mobile gangster, so one assumes he'd recoil in horror, but I'm sure the writers of The Sopranos could do something interesting with this.

  • The advertisers deploy the images to persuade the well-off and upwardly mobile that Crown Royal should be the Chablis or chardonnay of their generation.

  • The new religion of India is of course modernization, and young, upwardly mobile professionals are everywhere.

  • Young upwardly mobile peddlers of old and new-old china and other bric-a-brac on Queen’s Quay West call their flea market the Harbourfront Antique Market.


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