noun

definition

The upper part; the top.

adjective

definition

Directed toward a higher place.

example

with upward eye; with upward course

adverb

definition

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin

example

We ran upward

definition

In the upper parts; above.

definition

Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

Examples of upward in a Sentence

Keeping along the long wall, she inched her way upward, sticking to the shadows.

They wound about, always going upward, for some time.

This process is an upward one, through the formation of the solar system and of our earth with its inorganic bodies, up to the production of man.

A great upward movement has, however, been observable since 1863.

The Woman Soul leads us upward and on!

Poverty will be redefined upward until, for all intents and purposes, poverty as we know it today no longer will exist.

With effort, Deidre hauled herself up onto a branch, wrapped her legs around it in a careful balancing act then stretched upward for the next.

Not wanting to be around to hear Claire get her way, Sofia climbed onto the edge of Damian's balcony and stretched upward toward the ledge running around the mansion.

The angel ignored her and dropped beside her, wringing his hands helplessly.  The blond woman dangled over the widening chasm, clutching Katie's hand.  She braced her feet against the side of the chasm and walked upward, until Toby could grab her belt.  The angel pulled hard, and Katie pushed Deidre on top of the angel, who yelped.

White fire spewed from the ground upward, towards the sky.

She gripped one and pushed it upward.

My physical limitations are forgotten--my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

Slowly, bring your right knee upward toward your chest.

The others had heard it as well and all eyes peered upward.

She braided her hair to keep the stiff sea breeze from tossing curls in her face and squinted upward again.

He tried to crawl upward toward her, but she just smiled down and doffed her beggar's hood so he'd recognize her.

Dean, absent any tools for pulling himself upward was limited to using the rope, hand over hand, impossibly slow compared to the man now pursuing him.

She opened it and stretched upward on tiptoes to pull down a set of nestled, glass bowls.

The stem in this family falls into two divisions, an underground portion bearing rhizoids and scales, the rhizome, and a leafy aerial stem forming its direct upward continuation.

These valleys are generally levelfloored, but at their borders gradually slope upward, and are filled, often to a depth of several thousand feet, with the detritus of gravel, sand and silt from the neighbouring hills.

These stamens encircle a style which is the upward continuation of the ovary, and which shows at its free end traces of the three originally separate but now blended carpels of which the ovary consists.

Shelving gradually upward from the low flats of Siberia the general continental level rises to a great central waterparting, or divide, which stretches from the Black Sea through the Elburz and the Hindu Kush to the Tian-shan mountains in the Pamir region, and hence to Bering Strait on the extreme north-east.

Next in upward sequence is a thick mass of sandstones, grits and shales - the Millstone Grit series.

The site of the old town slopes sharply upward from the harbour, to the west of which there extends an esplanade and modern residential quarter; for Penzance, with its mild climate, is in considerable favour as a health resort.

The sulphur is dissolved by superheated water forced down pipes, and the water with sulphur in solution is forced upward by hot air pressure through other pipes; the sulphur comes, 99% pure, to the surface of the ground, where it is cooled in immense bins, and then broken up and loaded directly upon cars for shipment.

Of this enormous output, from 98.3% upward went to the United States;' of whose total importation of all sugars and of cane sugar the proportion of Cuban cane - steadily rising - was respectively 49.8 and 53.7% in the seasons of 1900-1901 and 1904-1905.

The sides of the atrium are unfortunately occupied by plain ungainly buildings five storeys in height, awkwardly accommodating themselves to the upward slope of the ground.

It may be noted further that the Kennet continues upward the line of the main valley below the Goring gap, and the Cherwell that of the main valley above it.

Pop. 8000 and upward, about one-tenth Christians; except in the official classes, there are no Turks.

If the operation is again reversed, the upward course will be nearly, but not exactly, of the form shown by the line d c a, fig.

After a few repetitions of the reversal, the process becomes strictly cyclic, the upward and downward curves always following with precision the paths indicated in the figure.

Old trees are selected, from the bark of which it is observed to ooze in the early summer; holes are bored in the trunk, somewhat inclined upward towards the centre of the stem, in which, between the layers of wood, the turpentine is said to collect in small lacunae; wooden gutters placed in these holes convey the viscous fluid into little wooden pails hung on the end of each gutter; the secretion flows slowly all through the summer months, and a tree in proper condition yields from 6 to 8 Ib a year, and will continue to give an annual supply for thirty or forty years, being, however, rendered quite useless for timber by subjection to this process.

The cavern did not come to an end, as they had expected it would, but slanted upward through the great glass mountain, running in a direction that promised to lead them to the side opposite the Mangaboo country.

A sort of inclined tunnel led upward for a way, and they found the floor of it both rough and steep.

What he has taught we have seen beautifully expressed in his own life--love of country, kindness to the least of his brethren, and a sincere desire to live upward and onward.

Thanks to our friend and helper, our world lies upward; the length and breadth and sweep of the heavens are ours!

At the time when I became her teacher, she had made for herself upward of sixty signs, all of which were imitative and were readily understood by those who knew her.

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence.

That's Roman wormwood--that's pigweed--that's sorrel--that's piper-grass--have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t' other side up and be as green as a leek in two days.

He sawed a channel in the ice toward the shore, and hauled it over and along and out on to the ice with oxen; but, before he had gone far in his work, he was surprised to find that it was wrong end upward, with the stumps of the branches pointing down, and the small end firmly fastened in the sandy bottom.

A flush started in his neck and worked upward.

He tossed it in the air, and it dissipated into sparkles that floated upward.

They parked behind rocks, away from the direction of their approach, and immediately saw a nearly invisible path upward.

While Jennifer didn't complain, Dean could see her hands gripping the sides of the vehicle tightly as they moved steadily upward.

His own flashlight was jammed in his pocket, pointing absurdly upward.

The tourists were left below and Dean was alone save the sounds of nature on the rocky rutted path as his Jeep's tires clawed upward.

The teeth enable the climber to scale a vertical wall by holding to the ice while pulling yourself upward.

Jenn expected him to run around the power coursing upward.

Lower incisors sloping forward and upward.

If homogeneous liquid is drawn off from a vessel so large that the motion at the free surface at a distance may be neglected, then Bernoulli's equation may be written H = PIP--z - F4 2 / 2g = P/ p +h, (8) where P denotes the atmospheric pressure and h the height of the free surface, a fundamental equation in hydraulics; a return has been made here to the gravitation unit of hydrostatics, and Oz is taken vertically upward.

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