DOWNWARD in a Sentence

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73 example sentences for DOWNWARD, such as:

1. Share prices continued their downward trend.
2. She laid the picture face downward on the table.
3. Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.
4. But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line.
5. At the same instant Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOWNWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
downward
 a.  extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
 a.  on or toward a surface regarded as a base
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Replacing his javelin, he resumed his seat, bent his looks downward, and appeared to be absorbed in melancholy reflection.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  But with Mrs Bolton I only feel the downward plunge, down, horribly, among the sea-weeds and the pallid monsters of the very bottom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  He was busily chopping away at the furze, a long row of faggots which stretched downward from his position representing the labour of the day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
4  In Mrs. Yeobright's garden large-leaved plants of a tender kind flagged by ten o'clock in the morning; rhubarb bent downward at eleven; and even stiff cabbages were limp by noon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
5  His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
6  We found him, when we went to search for him, face downward in a little green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  At the same instant Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the ground.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
8  She danced beside me to the well, but when she saw me lean over the mouth and look downward, she seemed strangely disconcerted.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill-lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  Scarlett tucked the baby more securely under her arm so that he hung face downward, crimson and screaming, and removed the garnet earrings which had been Gerald's wedding present to Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  He was shaking, as though he stood in a strong wind, and his lips, traveling from her mouth downward to where the wrapper had fallen from her body, fell on her soft flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  But she put aside the thought with a smile at her own fears, and hastened downward, wondering if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
14  The moment was not the highest of her life, but the lowest and most desolate, which was altogether excellent, for instead of slipping downward she began to climb.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  This housing market is in a downward spiral and I've got to re-think my strategy.
2  Only late last year, Air Canada seemed to be contradicting the downward trend affecting US-based airlines by posting profits.
3  Others fear that security is to spiral downward in a long-term because more brazen traffickers will fight for control.
4  The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.
5  She laid the picture face downward on the table.
6  Share prices continued their downward trend.
7  Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards.
8  Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.