Sentence examples for pulling downward from inspiring English sources

The document advises interrogators to "tear clothing from detainees by firmly pulling downward against buttoned buttons and seams.

It may also result from displacement of the heart to the left of mid-chest or from excessive pulling downward by the diaphragm.

I felt the plush cloth under the soles of my feet, the hairs rising on my arms, my fingers like ten small weights pulling downward.

They'd walked with their fingers enlaced, pulling downward to draw each other close, his hip at her waist, her breasts at his ribs, each awkward rubbing step a kind of prolongation of the endless makeout session the night had become.

In two walk-ons, he played "What's New" and "It's All Right With Me," elegantly pulling downward glissandos around his lines, leaving open space in the ballad and building on blues phrases in the uptempo song.

Remove the charging handle by lining the détentes up with the recesses in the upper receiver housing and pulling downward.

Either way, steady the upper section as you prune, so it doesn't get pulled downward.

He still has pale, almost baby blue eyes, but thick lines at the corner of his mouth pull downward, making his chin appear like that of a marionette.

Stone and ore were pulled downward to crash against other rocks, causing the surviving sections of the mine to shake violently.

His ill-fated characters are forever being pulled downward by an uncontrollable force, more powerful than love or money, whose charm Bingham wisely never really explicates: it's just the thing, the shadow, a kind of bleak vocation.

The reason is that both he and the elevator accelerate downward at the same rate and so fall at exactly the same speed; hence, short of looking outside the elevator at his surroundings, he cannot determine that he is being pulled downward.