Sentence examples for upwards mean from inspiring English sources

This images the top of the helices only, and the direction of stripes indicates the handedness; striations going upwards mean right handed, and this is what we observed (Fig. 3G).

Waving your hands upwards means you agree with something.

Places that were once covered by kilometers of ice, like northern Canada, are now rebounding upwards — which means local sea levels are actually falling in some parts of Alaska.

But the regime's mania for documenting orders as they travel down the chain of command – and after-action reports that flow back upwards – has meant that the paper trail led unexpectedly to the very centre of power in Damascus.

As you can see from the scatter gram chart, the red line is curving upwards, which means that the production rate is increasing over time.

This issue biases our results upwards and means that SSS receipt is even less likely to have had much of an effect on these total and non-durable expenditure.

And if smokeless tobacco keeps trending upwards, that means more tobacco juice, more Mud Jugs, and more people who Darcy Compton can tell to kiss his ass.

The Baltic Dry index is used to provide insights into future economic activity; if the index is trending upwards, it means that global trade is rising and vice versa.

Once the platen does not move upwards, it means that the bale has reached the biggest density within the capacity of this machine.

UK housebuilding is not keeping up with demand, and unless mortgage rates rocket, that could mean upwards pressure on prices resumes once the dust has settled.

For upward mobility, respondents whose fathers were in the top category were excluded as they could not move upwards (1958 cohort: mean N=4325; 1970 cohort: mean N=4819) before comparing the upwardly mobile with those who were not (the downwardly mobile or stable).