downwards
Example Sentences
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Treasury yields took another step downwards as demand returned following last week’s selloff.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 26, 2026
The Titanic ride at Graveley Fruit Farm near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, sees the replica ship lift at one end to slide customers downwards, resembling the sinking of the ocean liner.
From BBC β Aug. 20, 2026
It follows growth of 0.2 percent -- revised downwards from an earlier reading of 0.3 percent -- in the last quarter of 2025.
From Barron's β May 19, 2026
“It’s been spiraling downwards every week,” Gough said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 29, 2026
Skirting the hither side of the pool where the hobbits had bathed, they crossed the stream, climbed a long bank, and passed into green-shadowed woodlands that marched ever downwards and westwards.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
