Sentence examples for downward past from inspiring English sources

From Plaza San Francisco, the boulevard's irresistibly gentle slope draws footsteps gently downward, past monuments and flower gardens, fancy hotels and movie palaces.

The blast wave continued to race downward, past a group of workers at Level 105.

"We begin in the clouds with heavenly light rays and travel downward past the watchful gargoyles to find the ultimate desecration of the garbage island," he says.

Andy Najar crossed from the right and Mitrovic muscled past Mertesacker to plant a firm, downward header past Szczesny.

Around 7 a.m., two of the Spitzers' three daughters, their eyes cast downward, walked past reporters toward 80th Street.

Others increase tax paid rather than deviating downward from past levels when changes to the tax schedule remove their ability to pay the same amount as before.

But Torquay were not to be denied and Downes glanced a deft downward header past keeper Ross Worner to level.

Mellberg was allowed to rise unmarked amid a mass of dozing defenders to meet Seb Larsson's free-kick and send a downward header past Hart as England's players looked bemused at the fate that had befallen them.

In addition, violent crime has been clearly trending downward over the past 20 years.

The most recent tragedy doesn't, however, appear to have made much of an impact on Americans' appetite for stricter gun control, which has generally trended downward over the past few decades.

At the same time, the carbon intensity of the U.S. economy — CO2 emissions per dollar of GDP — has been trending downward over the past 25 years, according to the administration.