Sentence examples for spikes upward from inspiring English sources
Suddenly, the line on the graph spikes upward as the methane concentration shoots from 1.9 parts per million to 2.06 parts per million.
On car-dependent Long Island, where public transportation is not an option for many commuters, higher gasoline costs will cut into disposable income as the cost of driving to and from work spikes upward.
When their morale spikes upward, their attacks tend to be painfully and bloodily frontal — little more than racing columns down the highway, through a gantlet of the Qaddafi forces' rocket and mortar fire, face forward into the loyalists' machine guns.
These phenomena are called spikes (upward movements) and drops (downward movements).
Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq is spiking upward.
In the months after the call-in, the murder rate spiked upward.
He brandishes charts that show Berlin's debt spiking upward in an ugly zigzag.
Nickelodeon's spinoff channels are also spiking upward, albeit from smaller bases.
This hardly does justice to prices spiking upward of $2.50 a gallon, as they did recently in many Midwestern cities.
When prices spike upward, the deals generally moderate the pain, but when supplies are ample, consumer prices do not fall as sharply as prices at the wellhead.
Though beef consumption spiked upward during the flush 90's, the longer-term trend is down, and many people will tell you they no longer eat the stuff.
