Example sentences for: upwards

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

  • While this would bias estimates based on more recent pollution levels upwards, it also would imply a truly long-term chronic effect of pollution.

  • Four of the majors say it fetched just upwards of $3 million, while the LAT says $2.

  • There are story-telling sessions for children (from three years upwards), a puppet theatre, and other events for English-speaking children in Jerusalem.

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

  • A WP front-page piece reports that a rigorous test of science knowledge, given to 130,000 students nationwide, shows that upwards of 40 percent of high-school seniors, and more than one-third of fourth- and eighth-graders, couldn't meet minimum academic expectations.


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