Sentence examples for shoot upwards from inspiring English sources

When hurricanes knock out oil refineries, gasoline prices shoot upwards.

Rose-tinted stone turrets shoot upwards amid rows of chimneys.

Stands of cotton grass and sedge shoot upwards, and above them the sunlight catches on flakes of silver and gold.

It's an interesting initiative that is now in its second year (last year's winner, a craft honey beer caller Hiver, has seen sales shoot upwards).

Ne Win reportedly gave an order that guns were "not to shoot upwards," and soldiers opened fire, killing nearly six thousand people.

This, it says, has allowed prices to shoot upwards and slashed capacity margins, which are "so tight that National Grid's emergency power deals have become the norm".

Why does a weeping willow grow downwards while nearby poison ivy shoots upwards?

Instead of dropping off, or even staying where he was, his stats shot upwards.

Shooting upwards from the banks of the silver-backed river Usk, they look beautiful and benign.

In one image, the dark moon seems to be shooting upwards past the sun.

POWER shoots upwards from his feet through his torso and onward to his fists as he pummels his opponent.