Sentence examples for extend upwards from inspiring English sources

The drought has created a low-water choke point south of St Louis, near the town of Thebes, where pinnacles of rock extend upwards from the river bottom making passage treacherous.

Many wept and comforted each other as they watched the fire extend upwards through the floors, with flames ultimately billowing from the roof of the Category A listed building.

The deposits in the Grand Canyon are typically found in geologic features known as breccia pipes, formed millennia ago when caves in the main groundwater system collapsed, leaving shattered, rock-filled chimneys that extend upwards thousands of feet to the canyon's rim.

This problem is of general interest to the mining community but is particularly relevant to the oil and gas industry where drilling of deep wellbores often results in sand production around the well and hence opening of cavities that extend upwards until they encounter a competent caprock.

Blocks extend upwards covering altitudes from 60 to 270 km above the surface.

The gradual lines extend upwards, as surfaces along the Z-axis, to intersect with the limb and subsequently generate cross-sectional curves for the U input of the network component in Grasshopper 3D (Fig. 5 c, d)).

The mass range investigated extends upwards from 1.2 TeV.

The building is the owner's former family home, it was extended upwards, as with the neighbours.

Cheating, too, infects competing teams and drivers in Formula One.The rot extends upwards to the administrators of sports.

Within modern volant birds, an overlapping succession of avian flight modes extends upwards along DA 2 (Fig. 2).

Throughout the morning's play the clouds had gathered gloomily so that by midday the Lord's retractable floodlights had been extended upwards and switched on.