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Sentence Examples This collapse is associated with a vertical negative relief of c.180 m, defined as the maximum downwards deflection below the regional datum. But as soon as he did so, the world turned and he was swimming downwards, down, down into the deep, dark abyss. They'd started moving downwards when the sounds of shouting, feet, and equipment jangling drifted up. After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction. The first lagoon is situated at the top of the hill and the system of lagoons progresses downwards along the contours of the land. For once the average age is plummeting downwards to late teens, early twenties. There was a faint scar that sloped gently downwards from her index finger to her little finger. He shows an earlier type of candlestick of baluster form spreading downwards into a deep drip tray with a squat cinched base. If the drift downwards continues there would be a substantial erosion of pension funds in Ireland, he said. He folded his arms across his chest, drawing my attention to them and making me notice that they were fully bare from the shoulder downwards. The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was. Fault displacement varies and diminishes downwards and upwards from a central zone where the throw is highest. A hand thrust itself downwards and pushed aside a branch like a shop owner holding a door open for a customer. The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal, and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal. They were higher than any other boat when the little ship gave a lurch downwards and uttered a slow groan. Natural disasters often destroy productive capacity and send share prices skittling downwards. Some of them had steep, smooth walls that plunged into the sandy bottom, others undulated downwards. Equity markets continue to drift downwards or, at best, sideways, punctuated by short, unsustained recoveries. We had gone barely a hundred yards when a few snowflakes began to drift downwards. Soon they're learning how to fall safely and how to snowplough gently downwards. Show More Sentences Pains originating from urinary system, such as the kidneys downwards to genital parts may all be classified as abdominal pains. Many householders from the gentry downwards, and most retailers, brewed their own beer. She vaguely points downwards, as if alerting the darkening world to imminent nightfall. Positioning the nose of the saddle downwards may relieve your initial discomfort but it may cause long term pain. Fatty's shoulders dip downwards and Shannon just watches her sister cry with a blank expression. That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect. His gaze traveled downwards, and suddenly I felt exposed in my cami and shorts. Hold your hands, palms downwards, over the cloth and send your witch-power into the herbs. He looked downwards to see his grip had tightened so harshly around the shovel's handle, he cracked it. The heart line curving downwards from the base of the fingers ran over to the percussion without any branches or crosses to weaken its course. These owls have large heads, large, slightly elongated eyes, a short, hooked bill that points downwards. It is a solid river of ice broken into huge blocks, thrust downwards by a glacier or very large Yeti. She blinked her cloudy eyes, a hand drifting downwards towards her abdomen where her body still tingled. We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites. These deposits represent enrichments of ore minerals caused by surface waters that percolate downwards through an existing sulphide-rich orebody. They turned me to face downwards and I had my head in a vice, but the surgeon was ever so nice and set me at ease straight away. I am forced to leave the magazine face downwards where her mighty fizzog can be safely forgotten for a few precious moments of sanctuary. The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards. That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise. Take the tip of a large knife and quickly and firmly plunge the knife downwards through this cross. Show More Sentences The purpose of modernisation is to flatten the pyramid, to push power downwards and re-enfranchise the rank-and-file. Some failure in tension has occurred in the elements above the anomalous region where the flexural bending is concave downwards. The second one didn't miss a beat, and quickly sliced downwards, narrowly missing me. The anterior and posterior portions of the corpus callosum curve sharply downwards to form its genu and splenium, respectively. The maintenance of downwards accountability to local communities by the NHS has generally proved difficult to achieve. Looking around Joe saw the goggled face of his co-pilot, circling with his hand and then pointing downwards. Slowly, strained, the grate lifted and hung twenty feet above the opening, revealing a flight of stairs that descended downwards. A bead of redness appeared where the tip had dimpled the skin, grew, then trickled downwards. On sloping ground, soil can slip downwards at an imperceptibly slow rate by a process known as lateral creep. The gum collar dips downwards on the inner and outer surface of each tooth but rises between the teeth. He dipped his muzzle downwards, slowly, closing his eyes for a brief moment in remnants of a formality that was not welcome. She reached out towards her father struggling as the guillotine's blade sliced downwards. In a swirl the fish dived and headed downstream, pulling the rod tip downwards to the water surface. The book is now in equilibrium, the downwards force of gravity is perfectly countered by the upwards force that you are applying to it. Rather than following the classic coral slope downwards, I head for the shallows. She finally rounded a corner and noticed that the path this time seemed to slope downwards. The net internal effect will ultimately drive the cost of the brand up and drive quality levels downwards. It is generally longer than it is wide and its floor slopes downwards towards a junction either with another valley or a plain. I cast my gaze downwards towards the floor then looked back up at his hazel eyes. He said other factories are just chalking the price downwards at every opportunity. Show More Sentences The bridge sloped downwards halfway across, until it was level with the other side. One thing about walking around a lot with a small child is that your eyes are always looking downwards towards the pavement. What does that mean for cooperation between unions at executive level and downwards? The whole issue has been handled terribly, right from governmental level downwards. The pressure from everyone, from the Prime Minister downwards, seems to be having some effect at last. Everyone, from President Mubarak downwards, has assured me of the desire to increase the levels of trade. This was all too easy, he thought, as he gathered her up in his arms, her feet over one and her neck drooping dreamily downwards over the other. That glow was almost too calming, for the visitors were lulled into a drowse, then as they sank downwards, a peaceful sleep. The thick rock walls act as a natural filter, so as the space particles travel downwards, the cosmic rays collide with the atoms in the rock and are halted. Recorded by Clash roadie Baker Glare, who was learning the intricacies of a Portastudio and mixing on the job, the quality varies from patchy downwards. To make your locks as shiny as poss, give them a quick blast of cold water before getting out of the shower and always blow dry from the roots downwards. The giraffe gazed downwards at us with a stupidly benign expression on its face and slowly stalked away, balanced on its implausibly spindly legs. This was the katabatic wind rolling down off the polar plateau, picking up speed from the slow gravitational forces that pulled it downwards over the vast expanses of ice. But this gradual shift downwards may put pressure on inflation as the cost of imports rise, forcing the Bank of England to consider upping interest rates. Pushing the bar out to the left encouraged Matilda to soar right, and vice versa, while pulling the bar back tipped her wing downwards and likewise pointed us earthwards. On this occasion my head was in a more backward, downwards position and the water was poured on for a longer time. Pain may migrate from the chest downwards as the dissection progresses. The impact hit his knuckles, making him loose his grip and slip downwards. The scar created by quarrying the hillside below the Nab is visible from a wide area, but excavations are now going downwards below the level of the surrounding land. The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water. Show More Sentences I suddenly felt the plane go completely downwards, into a nosedive. Everyone was soon out and with a nod, a very cool nod, the pilot banked the aircraft sideways and downwards away from the wall and roared off up the gorge. Above audience and performers alike, an inner ceiling droops downwards in sail-like sleeves that both help disperse sound and secrete necessary technical apparatus. I followed more slowly, my hands in my pockets and my eyes faced downwards, ignoring the concern in my friend's sea-green eyes as she turned around to watch me. Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year. Words of encouragement and advice, and indeed a supportive phone call during the week, have always compensated any feeling of deflation at the scales refusing to go downwards. Or on the other hand, from the governments' perspective should piracy be viewed as a handy but deniable mechanism for pressuring the software company's pricing downwards? I shall only sell if they head downwards towards my break-even point. Circulation is from the top downwards, with visitors transported up through the atrium in a bank of lifts to the starting point of the exhibition route on the topmost floor. When one looks at the figures, one can see the graph of employment opportunities rocketing up over the last 5 years and the unemployment figures trending downwards. We traveled downwards for a while, as I watched the darkness and listened to the gentle pattering of tiny feet and the drip of water falling into a pool. Waterspouts are basically tornadoes that are over water, and downbursts are violent gusts of winds blowing directly downwards from the storm cloud. Rub a little oil over the body and progress downwards towards the feet. Abdominal examination revealed a large scar from the navel downwards. If canopy birds have a greater need to shift downwards than understory birds, the strata of canopy birds should be wider than those of understory birds. Depending on which club in your bag you are using, this angle of attack can be upwards, downwards or level. The dowsers held the double-end in each hand and the singleend twitched and bent downwards when water was found. At the lower end of the firesteel the rim curves convexly downwards in two bands. The ankle joint can flex so as to allow the trailing edge of the wings to bend downwards. They catch young rabbits by locating their position in their nest by scent, then dig vertically downwards to it. Show More Sentences Fleas tried to avoid the scratching, retreating rapidly downwards and backwards through the fur. Those constituents reradiate upwards and downwards, thereby heating the Earth's surface. The first is the generation of turbulence near the ocean surface, which acts to stir light water downwards. A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank. The former usually anastomosed with the sulcal branch of RCA while the later extended downwards on the posterior surface of the left ventricle. The device, a new form of ornithopter has wings that push downwards instead of flapping, mimicking the puling movements of a swimming jellyfish. After several seasons, the brine liquid drains out downwards from the pockets and the pockets may even debrine completely. Bright received many letters and telegrams of sympathy from the Queen downwards. Liquid from the bottom of the chambers is diluted and pumped to the top of the chamber and sprayed downwards in a fine mist. Towards the completion of the undersea drives, the UK TBMs were driven steeply downwards and buried clear of the tunnel. These adits connected with shafts that were either sunk vertically downwards or followed the line of the steeply dipping lode. If in cases of difficulty you have recourse to this means, luxate downwards as far as half the dorsopalmar diameter, and then vice versa. The drop kick technique in rugby codes is usually to hold the ball with one end pointing downwards in two hands above the kicking leg. Social mobility was usually downwards, due to social and economic pressures. Wet your skin, spread shaving foam across the areas where the hair is growing and shave with downwards strokes. Hags may result when flowing water cuts downwards into the peat and when fire or overgrazing exposes the peat surface. These growth rings increase in size downwards until they reach the curved ventral edge of the shell. This was because the wave moved downwards on the eastern side of the fault line and upwards on the western side. The effect of this downwards pull is to eliminate excessive twist and sagging off to leeward at the head of the sail and to allow a little more flow or belly near the luff. The pygidium of the male appears straight downwards from above. Show More Sentences The lower branches from the main trunk are leaning downwards as if kissing the desert soil and expressing love and regards for the continuing sustenance. The government will introduce transitional arrangements to 'phase in' large changes in rateable value both upwards and downwards over the five years of the Revaluation. Jim Troughton made 30 but the rest was a sorry procession of unfocused batting and loose shots with no-one from number five downwards reaching double-figures. The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried. The column of mercury fell downwards, leaving a Torricellian vacuum above. It is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as the population trend is downwards, especially in Mongolia where it is nearly extinct. The keel was a flattened plank about twice as thick as a normal strake plank but still not strong enough to withstand the downwards thrust of a mast. The Texas pocket gopher avoids emerging onto the surface to feed by seizing the roots of plants with its jaws and pulling them downwards into its burrow. The caudicle then bends and the pollinium is moved forwards and downwards. Lift is generated when air flows over the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it, and deflecting the airflow downwards. Sigurd uses his sword Gram to cut the corslet, starting from the neck of the corslet downwards, he continues cutting down her sleeves, and takes the corslet off of her. In the third phase stolons develop from lower leaf axils on the stem and grow downwards into the ground and on these stolons new tubers develop as swellings of the stolon. A downwards spiral towards social disorder and chaos has begun. The coal bearing rock strata or coal measures that make up the coalfield outcrop in the foothills of the Pennines and dip gently downwards from west to east. For a long time the turning was done manually, simply by pushing on a long tail-pole extending downwards, almost to the ground, from the rotatable superstructure. Examples from Classical Literature Dish up the beef with the upper side downwards, put the mince in the inside, and strew it with bread crumbs ready prepared. The floor of the thalamencephalon projects downwards and backwards as the infundibulum. She stood, her eyes turned downwards, yet inwards, and dilating with horror. Scimitar-babblers are so called because of the long, slender, compressed beak, which is curved downwards like that of a sunbird. A naked sabre, fixed hilt downwards in the earth, was worshipped by the Alani. They curl, upwards from the root, downwards to the point, and form a plume. The eye is fixed by grasping the conjunctiva close to the limbus downwards and inwards. It was caught suspended head downwards on a cluster of the round fruit of the longan tree. When there is a Point at the end of the sinking Mark, it shews, that the toe must be bent downwards. But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same. Four columell curved, the two lateral ones prolonged downwards into two vertical, tuberculate feet of half their length. In many flies a vertical frontal cavity receives the antenn, which point downwards during repose. To the pack-saddle, or aparejo, two baskets are fastened, in which the botijas are placed with the small ends downwards. At last he thought he could see a stretch of land free from obstructions and, deciding to venture, he made a volplane downwards. Its banks are clothed with forest, and from Minusinsk downwards the river is navigable. I see myself now, face downwards in the orchard grass, broken-hearted by the calamity. The brow tine and the next or bez tine are also palmated and are directed forwards and a little downwards. The peristome bears a double marginal ring of divergent conical spines, the upper being directed upwards, the lower downwards. There are many varieties of snakes, varying in size from the python downwards. He kept his face downwards and aside, as if he were pondering and coming to no conclusion. Show More Sentences As they belong to the catarrhine group, their nose has a narrow partition between the nostrils, which are directed downwards. I asked him why he did so, and he replied that they were directed outwards, not downwards. It led upwards to the roof and downwards to a deep vault which was arched and groined. Sagittal ring ovate, prolonged upwards into an occipital horn, downwards into a caudal foot, as in the preceding species. The ball, after breaking his collarbone, had glanced downwards, and the wound was a more serious one than he had imagined. In their morphological characters they gradually approach the pelagic forms upwards and the abyssal downwards. This cross-head drives upwards and downwards an axle D, to which the lower end of the connecting rod E is attached. Invert the barrels, muzzle downwards, while you refix your dry tow on the rod. The broad plumes of the corozo palm curved gracefully over, their points trailing downwards, and without motion. In the frontal plane two galear bows project upwards, and two thoracal bows downwards. Cut out the stems, and put them, with the top of the mushrooms downwards, on a gridiron. From the under side of the thyroid two horns project downwards to become jointed to the cricoid. Neither does the appearance of a redundant s in such words as towards, downwards, afterwards and heavenwards. The piston will, therefore, be pressed downwards by the action of the steam above it, as in the single-acting engine. This term is usually applied to aerofoil surfaces which dip downwards like the wings of a bird. This is done by twisting a bit of wire round the scribing point and allowing it to project downwards. Every one from the highest rank downwards had his personal devise or impresa, or more often a series of them. The next step is to incise the sinus freely from above downwards towards the jugular fossa and curette out the thrombus. He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good deal to the left. She has studied every thing from the Hegelian philosophy downwards. Show More Sentences At the same time, the olecranon is curved strongly downwards. He took out of it two long Italian rapiers, with splendid steel hilts and blades, which he planted point downwards in the lawn. The dead set against him extended from the Fifth Form downwards. I have lived in intimacy with them all, from Alexander downwards. For the true polarity of consciousness in woman is downwards. And this is preeminently the case when the motion is downwards. The pistol was cocked, and I simply pointed it downwards and fired. The pin is downwards to prevent rising, as in the suspended compass-card. From Solomon downwards, have not wiser men than he been cajoled and befooled by women? Anthony in the Santo also orient their gazes and gestures downwards towards a beholder standing or kneeling in the center. The politician solemnly pointed downwards with his forefinger. Grease a baking-tin, and lay one of the mackerel, skin downwards, on it. He was slant-eyed and lion-bodied, being slender from the waist downwards. It has a small head, the snout sharpened and bent slightly downwards. All the Old Testament heroes, from Lamech downwards, were polygamists. With a swoop upwards instead of a swoop downwards, as you say. Her fingers were interlaced, and her hands rested, palms downwards, on her knee. The china utensils of the washstand were turned head downwards. Instead of answering the young man lifted up his robe, and showed the Sultan that, from the waist downwards, he was a block of black marble. If the letters of the L edge word read downwards 1234, the transposed letters of the R edge word conform to one of 5 permutations. Show More Sentences It swept us downwards, but still we made way, for we could swim well. Faku crooked his arm and let the axe curl downwards, so that its keen edge smote Umslopogaas upon the head, severing his man's ring and the scalp beneath. And with fear in his eyes, Lord Henry rushed through the flapping palms to find Dorian Gray lying face downwards on the tiled floor in a deathlike swoon. Find more words! 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