Sentence examples for rise uphill from inspiring English sources

Major Katz said his main objective was to prevent Palestinian gunmen from firing on the Jewish area of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem, across the olive groves that rise uphill to the north of here.

Hang a right and follow it as it rises uphill and becomes Laugavegur.

It rises uphill from the water, and the many dead-end streets seem to help discourage fast traffic.

Even battered by war, it was a beautiful street, rising uphill at a perfect perpendicular angle from the main thoroughfare, three white minarets piercing the sky above red rooftops.

Button was less enamoured with the unusual approach to Turn One, which has attracted a lot of attention because the track rises steeply uphill to the corner.

WALKING LUNGES UPHILL Take a long step forward with your right leg, bending both knees so that you get about 90 degrees at each knee, then rise and step forward your with left leg.

However, after battling hard on the predominantly uphill stage to take two more points at the final sprint with around 22km the 210km stage remaining, he, as expected, quickly slipped backwards as the road began to rise sharply.

The going eventually gets far less steep, but the uphill rise continues for several kilometres through the quiet, unspoiled forest before a mild downhill begins.

The sun rose in the sky, so we sought shade uphill under a large oak.

The can't-lose approach is a popular one in the Greenfield neighborhood, a wedge of Pittsburgh that rises from the Monongahela River and widens along a two-mile uphill stretch of Greenfield Avenue.

Unusual local features are Magnetic Hill (with its illusion of uphill gravitation) and a tidal bore, or wave, that rises 3 6 feet (1 2 metres) twice daily and surges up the Petitcodiac River.