Sentence examples for steeply upwards from inspiring English sources

A longer period of zero gravity is achievable by flying a jet steeply upwards on full power then throttling back to almost nothing.

He was still in contention 450m from the finish when the road arced steeply upwards but, as he went past Harrogate's Turkish baths with 300m remaining, he was feeling the heat from Gerrans and Kittel.

Then, in the last inch or so – around 1950 – it veers steeply upwards, like a pilot banking after a cliff has suddenly appeared from what he thought was an empty bank of cloud.

Muwafaq al-Rubaie, a former national security adviser of courtly demeanour who displays the noose that hanged Saddam in his heavily guarded villa beside the Tigris, insists that Iraq's trajectory is generally upwards, not steeply so but recognisably.

Some costs have been rising steeply.

The street climbs upward steeply..

The news sent Nokia's shares climbing steeply, and they've been tracking upwards since — with the stock roughly doubling since the deal with announced.

The narrow path then led upwards, turning back across the hillside as it climbed steeply.

Then near birds peeled upwards, luffing into the breeze, catching that lift and rising steeply.

A steeply arched 19th century bridge frames the gorge, cliffs rise precipitously on either side, stark rock monoliths project upwards from the lower slopes, and soaring mountains loom afar, on this day still with an early spring covering of snow.

Steeply sloping streamways are common.