Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
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Examples for "downwards "
Examples for "downwards "
1 They found that the animals simply glided downwards without moving a muscle.
2 The good news was offset after the April numbers were revised downwards .
3 Meanwhile, Twitter's stock price has been meandering downwards for the past year.
4 Keep your fingers in his throat; the other hand creeps warily downwards .
5 I think the target will, ultimately over time, be revised downwards slightly.
1 The European Union's statistics agency said unemployment stayed unchanged from the downwardly revised December reading.
2 But so far as I know this is the habit only of good-sized, downwardly - moving eels.
3 Soon the Taube was noticed to lurch from side to side, and then dart downwardly .
4 It diminishes downwardly in the water, and also toward the polar sides of the trade-wind districts.
5 That downwardly revised figure nonetheless marked the index's high-water reading since it was launched in 2005.
Cause to come or go down.
Другие значения термина "down" 1 Reading down the list they said, 'Nice', 'Real nice', 'Very nice', 'Nice'.
2 However, Evans said the opportunity was simply too good to turn down .
3 The deal would, however, create a customs border down the Irish Sea.
4 The last Labour government went quite a long way down this road.
5 The stock, however, remains down some 30 percent so far this year.
6 Palm oil markets, however, are still down almost 4 percent this year.
7 The question is whether we have come down far enough, Nunan said.
8 The sentence was handed down late last night, court officials said today.
9 Iced-over trees knocked down power lines, leaving thousands without electricity, officials said.
10 Shares remain down 52 percent from just over a year ago, however.
11 Today's new figure is down from the 67 new cases reported yesterday.
12 However, Congress played down the possible ramifications of its state elections setback.
13 I kept saying, 'Yes, sir; sorry, sir,' trying to calm him down .
14 It settles down in second year and third year now, she says.
15 The state teacher's union has given the thumbs - down to both ideas, however.
16 In Europe, delays were down to liver safety problems with high doses.
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