downwards

Example Sentences

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“It’s been spiraling downwards every week,” Gough said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

"The music on Styles' new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words," said the paper's chief music critic, Alexis Petridis.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

And while emissions have now been trending downwards or stagnant for almost two years, any decline is not yet substantial.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

American golf, from the PGA Tour downwards, dominates the OWGR.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

They were down in some subterranean place—the bottom of a well, for instance, or a very deep grave—but it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards.

From "1984" by George Orwell