Example sentences for: upwards

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

  • The road continues upwards, passing roadside souvenir and fruit vendors, and a few well-placed miradouro restaurants.

  • In big cities, New Year's Eve rates of upwards of $100 an hour are common.

  • Congressional negotiations are stalled over a dollar amount, however, as Dems are proposing $300,000 and Republicans upwards of $4.

  • It has been suggested that weight standards be adjusted upwards for age [ 8 ] . Such recommendations remain controversial, however, because the number of studies of older persons is fairly small, and because few studies have examined the relation of BMI to quality of life or years of healthy life (YHL) in the elderly [ 9 ] .

  • If this conjecture is correct, then Italy's delivery percentages could be adjusted upwards (by an unknown amount) towards the predicted value and their mail processing costs would then have to be adjusted downwards.


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