Sentence examples for thing downward from inspiring English sources

"If you ask me to sum up Larry Page's tenure as C.E.O., it's one thing: downward margins," Mr. Gillis said.

She forced the thing downward, and just as it settled over her ears her jolliness bubbled over, and she made a most unusual face, a lopsided pout.

And then we say, oh no, it's simply materialist – and it's a self-perpetuating thing, a downward cycle.

The theological proposition that is implicit but never spelled out, of course, is that one God occupies the pinnacle of the hierarchy of all being to that one God all things turn upward, from complexity to simplicity; from that one God all things flow downward, from singularity to multiplicity.

Unfortunately, almost as soon as the movie started, things spiraled downward.

I don't mean gravity as in seriousness; I mean gravity as in the force that makes things fall downward rather than float upward.

Before they grew up or things spiraled downward, many of these people recall having had intimations of specialness, a sense that the glittering promises of the American dream were actually within reach.

A happily middle-aged novelist of some repute wakes up one morning, decides his work is worthless (oh, those writers!), and immediately becomes embroiled with a young Frenchwoman who turns out to be both phenomenally demanding and, as things spiral downward, exceedingly difficult to shake.

From there things spiraled downward.

After Adam's and Eve's initial sin, humans just get creepier and creepier and things spiral downward.

Things continued downward for Jenn, such as a bout of kidney failure and a minor heart attack.