Sentence examples for pressed downward from inspiring English sources

By the time the Jews moved into the sewers of Lwów, the city's inhabitants had been pressed downward for years.

"The guy might be throwing more weight on the hand" -- the flesh pressed downward -- "and he's probably coming hard upfield.

Stomach 2, the points below the eye, should be pressed downward toward the mouth.

The woman, reclining, her open arms pressed downward on the grass, her head tossed back, is gazing up at the sky.

It is a way of behaving such that one takes actions, conscious or unconscious, to keep those of other races pressed downward into weaker states of power and lesser states of freedom, with respect to everything from confidence and sense of self-worth, to economic mobility and education -- this oppression is accomplished through words, images, laws, policy, violent force, etc.

Pressing downward on your hands, try to lift yourself up a few inches by straightening out your arms.

This apparently occurs, Visscher and Ulene say, because lying flat on the back during vigorous activity allows the amniotic sac, in which the fetus is contained, to press downward on the vena cava, one of the body's largest arteries and a major vessel that plays a key role in fetal circulation.

Don't press downward or you may smash the tomatoes.

You should be able to determine that what you've hit is the clog if you sense the clump giving way slightly as you press downward.

Meanwhile, a higher machine power means a higher downward force, therefore, instead of being cut, surface material was pressed down and slid along the grinding direction.

Place your hands on the floor palms face downward to enable you to press down.