upper
Example Sentences
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It is not clear why they could not escape the storage room, which is on the upper floor, according to firefighters.
From BBC
"And then our organised crime teams and specialist crime are focusing on those at the upper end: the bigger networks exporting them across the world."
From BBC
With blonde horizontal stripes dyed into her black hair and a piercing in her upper lip, the 20-year-old Liu is putting an alternative spin on figure skating.
From Los Angeles Times
Ground-floor tickets generally cost around a dollar, while cheap seats in the upper balconies were usually just a dime, making vaudeville accessible to rich and poor alike.
In its analysis of December rents, Realtor.com dug into rents in the upper and lower segments of the market, and found that affordability improved more for higher-income tenants compared to their lower-income peers.
From MarketWatch
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