downwards

IPA: dˈaʊnwɝdz

adverb

  • Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
  • Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc.
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Examples of "downwards" in Sentences

  • Decimation from the Aruac downwards is the blasted root of
  • I added a water plane to the scene and sloped the terrain downwards to form a coastline.
  • All fiction from the novels in the mushroom libraries downwards is censored in the interests of the ruling class.
  • The 1.5853 bottom and support is still holding the bearish attacks, and only persuasive break bellow it would confirm the short term downwards scenario.
  • Place your pencil on the A at the top and count in how many different ways you can trace out the word downwards, always passing from a letter to an adjoining one.
  • The fact that not all explanatory arrows point downwards, is a fact which mitigates against the possibility of epistemological reductionism, but it remains perfectly consistent with ontological reductionism.
  • Dandy, on the other hand, took the candle-box from under his arm, and putting it flat on the table, with the label downwards, placed his two hands upon it, and looked the other right in the face; after which he closed one eye, and gave him a very knowing wink.
  • Some had pressed downwards from the bank in a solid phalanx, smothering the hinder branches almost to death; others had thrust upwards from the ground, looping themselves over the topmost boughs and falling to take root again on the other side, so that the trees were bound to the earth with criss-cross cords, like haystacks on a windy headland.
  • The baskets or frames for the Stanhòpea and other root-flowering plants should be from three to six inches deep, and from six to ten inches wide; and the frames should be filled with strips of turf, two or three inches wide, piled up on one another so as to fill the frame, and yet leave a sufficient space between to admit the passage of the flower stems which protrude downwards from the root.

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