How To Use Downwards In A Sentence

After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
It is generally longer than it is wide and its floor slopes downwards towards a junction either with another valley or a plain.
With a blood-curdling scream she fell downwards.
He has on the back of his stone a shield with nine rows of chequers; over the top of the shield is a mascle between two keys fesswise, bits inwards and downwards.
Or on the other hand, from the governments' perspective should piracy be viewed as a handy but deniable mechanism for pressuring the software company's pricing downwards?

The anterior and posterior portions of the corpus callosum curve sharply downwards to form its genu and splenium, respectively.
The refrigerator door was wide open, and he was lying just behind it, slumped face downwards.
For example, colonial anthozoan cnidarians, in particular the Pennatulacea or "sea pens" are quite capable of moving, defouling themselves, and burrowing both upwards and downwards.
High cliffs towered above us, and fragments which must have weighed twenty tons had slipped into the water; one of them bore an adansonia, growing head downwards. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
She finally rounded a corner and noticed that the path this time seemed to slope downwards.
Materials and food prices began to drift downwards from the summer of 1973.
Due to this a small adjustment, downwards, in the price occurs, to compensate for the dealer being short of funds.
The cliffs were barely visible now, plunging downwards to a broad inlet spanned by many bridges and surrounded by a sprawling port. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
She climbed downwards to a lower branch of the tree.
The thing beyond the stair-rail slashed downwards at Cardiff again and caught his sleeve.
As all those who held direct of the crown by military service (for those who held "by serjeanty" appear to have been classed apart), from earls downwards, were alike "barons," the great difference in their position and importance must have led, from an early date, to their being roughly divided into "greater" and "lesser" barons, and indeed, under Henry II., the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ already distinguishes their holdings as Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The highest eulogy that can be pronounced on the intellectual character of a ruler, in times of great civil convulsion, is that it is his policy to have no policy, content with keeping his ship trim as he permits her to sweep downwards with the precipitous torrent. An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln
He slipped over the ragged mat which formed the eaves, and the next moment, _crack, crack, crack_, he was hanging feet downwards, and then fell heavily in a cloud of dust bump upon the trampled earth, in company with a snake about six feet long, which began to glide rapidly away. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
The resistance of the innocent man caused the "whipper" to call in three other sturdy blacks, and, in a few minutes, the victim was fastened upon the stretcher, face downwards, his clothing removed, and the strong-armed white negro-whipper standing over him with uplifted whip. My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect.
Peering downwards, praying she hadn't just inadvertently trampled on Zebedee or Orlando or little Tallulah in the gloom, she grinned. TICKLED PINK
Looking around Joe saw the goggled face of his co-pilot, circling with his hand and then pointing downwards.
One thing about walking around a lot with a small child is that your eyes are always looking downwards towards the pavement.
Few think oil prices will lurch downwards again. Times, Sunday Times
He has moved downwards socially. Times, Sunday Times
For much of the year the index traded sideways or downwards. Times, Sunday Times
Leaves a span long, cordato acuminate; the laminae all pointing downwards, glossy green and glabrous above. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
They are what are called catarrhine Apes -- that is, their nostrils have a narrow partition and look downwards; and, furthermore, their arms are always longer than their legs, the difference being sometimes greater and sometimes less; so that if the four were arranged in the order of the length of their arms in proportion to that of their legs, we should have this series -- Orang (1 4 Lectures and Essays
Place a rubber band over your first and second fingers and hold your right hand facing downwards.
Instead it is a springboard upon which to hurtle back downwards at approaching the speed of light. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, cancer rates were trending downwards in all developing countries prior to screening programmes having been initiated in the 1960s.
The ground tilted sharply downwards.
The right elbow has continued to fold and now points downwards. Winning Golf for Women
The right elbow has continued to fold and now points downwards. Winning Golf for Women
The death toll was later revised downwards to 689.
Either way, the trajectory was set, the graph was trending downwards and at some point the end result would surely be death. Times, Sunday Times
With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.
Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
The anterior, probably downwards-orientated, part of shell has a gape from which the foot could probably emerged.
Any direction you can imagine - upwards, downwards, or sidewards - electrons can do it.
To be a good manager, you must know how to devolve responsibility downwards.
Having slain those Kurus -- our kinsmen, that is, our friends and well-wishers, -- we shall have to sink in hell, beads (hanging) downwards. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
But then I saw the left side of her face suddenly slide downwards - like it was made of wax and melting. The Sun
In places, slivers of oceanic crust were pushed upwards, rather than downwards. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
They turned me to face downwards and I had my head in a vice, but the surgeon was ever so nice and set me at ease straight away.
Everyone was soon out and with a nod, a very cool nod, the pilot banked the aircraft sideways and downwards away from the wall and roared off up the gorge.
Hold your hands, palms downwards, over the cloth and send your witch-power into the herbs.
This muscle runs obliquely downwards inside the abdominal cavity.
They should face upwards and forwards and downwards and forwards for the upper and lower inside gums. Bad Breath
Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
In his autobiography, King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum
The garden sloped gently downwards to the river.
With the under-arm grip, a spearman can thrust with his spear downwards at the feet of his foe, or upward at his face. The Spear « Isegoria
The lower air density also reduces the Magnus Effect, which causes a spinning ball to swerve in flight and makes a ball with topspin dip downwards. Weatherwatch: high humidity and the Wimbledon tennis championships
After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
There may be some success stories here and there, but overall, it seems to be accepted that the trend is a downwards one rather than the contrary if our results are anything to judge by.
The whole issue has been handled terribly, right from governmental level downwards.
These deposits represent enrichments of ore minerals caused by surface waters that percolate downwards through an existing sulphide-rich orebody.
For once the average age is plummeting downwards to late teens, early twenties.
While the pillows are still partially molten they are compacted together so that they display convex upper surfaces and downwards-facing cusps at their contacts.
Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.
Positioning the nose of the saddle downwards may relieve your initial discomfort but it may cause long term pain.
With the line angling downwards within 30 seconds I called it for a yellowfin or bigeye and told Richard to get his gloves out with the gaff and standby to gaff his first blue-water fish - a far cry from blue sharks!
The pupa of the gnat [10] also has 'respiratory trumpets' serving the same purpose, but these are a pair of processes on the prothorax, so that the pupa, which is fairly active, hangs from the surface-film with its abdomen pointing downwards through the water. The Life-Story of Insects
Pushing the bar out to the left encouraged Matilda to soar right, and vice versa, while pulling the bar back tipped her wing downwards and likewise pointed us earthwards.
I cast my gaze downwards towards the floor then looked back up at his hazel eyes.
The maintenance of downwards accountability to local communities by the NHS has generally proved difficult to achieve.
The road slopes gently downwards for a mile or two.
Most now expect the next move to be downwards. Times, Sunday Times
This estimate may have to be adjusted downwards.
Take the tip of a large knife and quickly and firmly plunge the knife downwards through this cross.
Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year.
He lay face downwards on his bed.
Even Faith opened her eyes wide to stare upward, for there was something sliding through one of the portholes above their heads, and dropping softly downwards -- a small package done up in crinkly pink paper, and tied neatly about with blue lutestring. All Aboard A Story for Girls
I behold the _corozo_ -- of the same genus with the _palma real_ -- its light feathery frondage streaming outwards and bending downwards, as if to protect from the hot sun the globe-shaped nuts that hang in grape-like clusters beneath. The Rifle Rangers
The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame. Hodge and His Masters
However, the net energy transfer between the magnetosphere and the upper atmosphere is downwards.
We had gone barely a hundred yards when a few snowflakes began to drift downwards.
Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.
Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards.
Most carpets are woven on a vertical loom, so that the threads which emerge from the knots hang downwards towards the end where the weaving started, and these loops are cut to form the pile.
But this gradual shift downwards may put pressure on inflation as the cost of imports rise, forcing the Bank of England to consider upping interest rates.
Fatty's shoulders dip downwards and Shannon just watches her sister cry with a blank expression.
[HAROLD turns up his eyes, and points downwards] Dry up, Harold! Complete Plays of John Galsworthy
The club has been on a spiral downwards because of a losing mentality. The Sun
Is the world economy about to lurch downwards? Times, Sunday Times
These by frequent nictitation are diffused over the whole ball, and as the external angle of the eye in winking is closed sooner than the internal angle, the tears are gradually driven forwards, and downwards from the lacrymal gland to the puncta lacrymalia. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
Then she stripped off her outer gear and she threw open her chemise from the neck downwards and showed her parts genital and all the rondure of her hips. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
For the last few weeks, I’ve been testing two: one is the equivalent of a PAR 30 60-watt halogen reflector lamp (the kind of lamp you see in recessed ceilings that is used to project light downwards) and the other is an LED version of a standard 40-watt light bulb. The $10 Million Light Bulb - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise.
Abdominal examination revealed a large scar from the navel downwards.
Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane. Wandering Heath
If one needed a hotter oven, one simply flicked a switch which directed some extra heat in a downwards direction.
The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was.
Many respectable money – lenders would have required "further information" before they would discount his bills; and "clubmen" in general — save, perhaps, those ancient quidnuncs who know everybody, from Adam downwards — had but little acquaintance with him. For the term of his natural life
Only a few stinking, slimy bubbles emerged from its mouth, burst into flames, and dripped downwards in pyric drool. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Fugal patterns slithering downwards kicked the ninth suite into life. Times, Sunday Times
He lay with his face downwards. North and South
The first lagoon is situated at the top of the hill and the system of lagoons progresses downwards along the contours of the land.
It is a pleasant walk downwards underneath the sweet chestnut trees. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
We had gone barely a hundred yards when a few snowflakes began to drift downwards.
They should face upwards and forwards and downwards and forwards for the upper and lower inside gums. Bad Breath
At the same time, however, in trying to bring upwards, punitive pressure to low-performers (read mostly low-SES, across – but also within – schools), it also brought downwards pressure to high-performers, in the form of lowest-common-denominator, one-size fits all curriculum and teaching to the test, etc. Matthew Yglesias » Is Our Children Learning
Slowly, strained, the grate lifted and hung twenty feet above the opening, revealing a flight of stairs that descended downwards.
While Treasury officials say the chancellor will not update his economic forecast until the pre-budget report in November, he is preparing the ground to revise his predictions downwards.
At length, the preamble concluded, he began his work, first by stroking my legs, from the knees downwards, with the palm of his hand, muttering all the while, and then by applying his mouth, and sucking the parts affected, accompanying the operation by a most strange kind of purring or grunting. Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity
The doggerel of the earlier years had almost entirely disappeared, and in its place appeared the perfect concerted music of the stanzas (from the sonnet and the Spenserian downwards), the infinite variety of the decasyllable, and the exquisite lyric snatches of song in the dramatists, pamphleteers, and music-book writers. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Hold out your hands with your palms facing downwards.
On sloping ground, soil can slip downwards at an imperceptibly slow rate by a process known as lateral creep.
Above audience and performers alike, an inner ceiling droops downwards in sail-like sleeves that both help disperse sound and secrete necessary technical apparatus.
However, the net energy transfer between the magnetosphere and the upper atmosphere is downwards.
Lightly spritz with hairspray, then wrap small sections of hair around the curling irons from ear height downwards. Times, Sunday Times
Turn the work downwards (that is, the purl stitch must be turned downwards), make 4 times 2 double, 1 purl, 1 purled stitch: this is the straight row between 2 outer scallops of the lace. Beeton's Book of Needlework
The value of the pound swung downwards.
Take hold of him by the legs, allowing his head to hang downwards; then give him with the palm of your hand several sharp blows on his back, and you may have the good fortune to see the coin coughed out of his mouth. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
Waterspouts are basically tornadoes that are over water, and downbursts are violent gusts of winds blowing directly downwards from the storm cloud.
The term clubbing is used to describe the swelling or enlarging of the tips of the fingers, with the nails curving downwards over the tip. Canadian Online Health News
The sense of fatalism and foreboding has been spread from the top downwards, by authorities whose primary concern appears to be to inoculate themselves against the charge of not doing enough.
They are terrible fellows for making one pay "footings," and their object was to intercept my retreat downwards. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards. Matthew Yglesias » Today in Pessimism
He said other factories are just chalking the price downwards at every opportunity.
These owls have large heads, large, slightly elongated eyes, a short, hooked bill that points downwards.
Starting from the epigraphic capital, decorations were now added to cross-strokes and feet, diacritics took on a curved shape, and in general the letter-form narrowed downwards.
When the pus forms in front of the joint, it may spread laterally in the iliac fossa as an _iliac abscess_ or may gravitate downwards in the hollow of the sacrum and emerge on the buttock through the sacro-sciatic foramen -- _sub-gluteal abscess_. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
The net internal effect will ultimately drive the cost of the brand up and drive quality levels downwards.
Occasionally bleeding occurs from one of the anterior ethmoidal veins, and under these circumstances the blood flows downwards between the middle turbinal and the septum. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
It must be assumed that the crust in following downwards the shrinking subcrustal magma, develops immense compressive stresses in The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
The social positions of the two groups were even more rigidly differentiated; those of the fifth rank and upwards being termed tenjo-bito, or men having the privilege of entree to the palace and to the Imperial presence; while the lower group (from the sixth downwards) had no such privilege and were consequently termed chige-bito, or groundlings. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Keep the nozzle pointing downwards to ensure that the hair is smooth and shiny. Times, Sunday Times
He folded his arms across his chest, drawing my attention to them and making me notice that they were fully bare from the shoulder downwards.
He looked downwards to see his grip had tightened so harshly around the shovel's handle, he cracked it.
In all Mammals, each cerebral hemisphere contains a cavity which is termed the 'ventricle,' and as this ventricle is prolonged, on the one hand, forwards, and on the other downwards, into the substance of the hemisphere, it is said to have two horns or 'cornua', an 'anterior cornu,' and a 'descending cornu.' Lectures and Essays
The garden sloped gently downwards towards the river.
Sheets of ice-pebble meteorites sleeted downwards, burning crimson contrails with lightning forks rippling in their wake. The Dreaming Void
Everyone on both sides of American politics from Obama downwards joined in the storm of outrage, which was followed by predictable bleating from the banksters.
Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
An incision similar to that required for ligature of the carotid above the omohyoid should be made over the inner edge of the sterno-mastoid muscle; with it as a guide, the omohyoid may be sought and drawn downwards and inwards, the sheath of the vessels exposed and drawn outwards, the larynx slightly pushed across to the right, the thyroid gland drawn out of the way by a blunt hook, the superior thyroid either avoided or tied. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
Initially growing downwards – like any normal mammalian upper canine – it is then rotated as the alveolus itself turns to force the tooth upwards, and it eventually emerges from the dorsal surface of the snout. Archive 2006-08-01
Ideally a building should be cleared from the top downwards.
Many other prey species flee upwards to safety rather than downwards.
i is compreffed on the fides fo, that one fharp edge goes upwards and the other downwards: the hind feet are not palmated, or joined by a moveable fkin, but are peculiar for having on both fides of the feet, long, white, clofe, pectinated, off - fbnding hair, befides the fhort hair with which the feet are quite covered. Travels into North America : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general, with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curiou
The outermost layer becomes the investing skin-tube of the embryo; the layer for the nervous system forms the tubular rudiment of the brain and spinal cord; the mucous layer curls round to form the alimentary tube; the muscle layer grows upwards and downwards to form the fleshy and osseous tube of the body wall; even the vessel layer forms a tube investing the alimentary canal, but a part of it goes to form the medial "Gekröse," or mesenterial complex, which departs considerably from the tubular form. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The scar created by quarrying the hillside below the Nab is visible from a wide area, but excavations are now going downwards below the level of the surrounding land.
To make your locks as shiny as poss, give them a quick blast of cold water before getting out of the shower and always blow dry from the roots downwards.
On reaching the toes, take your hands back to the head and sweep downwards again.
Therefore in such animals the uterus is dissimilar to that of both the vivipara and ovipara, because they participate in both classes; for it is at once near the hypozoma and also stretching along downwards in all the cartilaginous fishes. On the Generation of Animals
We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites.
Past the mouth of the plant are the teeth, fine and needle-sharp, pointing downwards, so to go back at this point means to be pierced painfully by them. CONSUMING • by Krystyna Smallman
Cartes_ principles by conceiving the Globuls of the third Element to find less and less resistance against that side of them which is downwards, or by a way, which I have further explicated in the Inquisition about Colours, to be from an obliquation of the pulse of light, whence the under part is continually promoted, and consequently refracted towards the perpendicular, which cuts the Orbs at right angles. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards .
She reached out towards her father struggling as the guillotine's blade sliced downwards.
Nine per cent of commuters used public transport in 1995 and the trend is downwards.
Make sure the lip of the base faces downwards, so the cheesecake will slide off easily when cooked. The Sun
I followed more slowly, my hands in my pockets and my eyes faced downwards, ignoring the concern in my friend's sea-green eyes as she turned around to watch me.
Me and my fellow leafleteer took the lift to the top floor then worked downwards, each of us taking the dangerously poorly lit stairwells. March
She climbed downwards to a lower branch of the tree.
Is the world economy about to lurch downwards? Times, Sunday Times
The leaf is cambered downwards along its length.
Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
All along the line, huge hairy forms poised for seconds on the brink, great arms thrashing, only to waver and plunge downwards, pierced by a dozen assegais. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
Where there exists an introsusception of the bowel in children, could the patient be held up for a time by the feet with his head downwards, or be laid with his body on an inclined plane with his head downwards, and crude mercury be injected as a clyster to the quantity of two or three pounds? Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Is the world economy about to lurch downwards? Times, Sunday Times
With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.
After the operations the plaintiffs developed spastic paraplegia which resulted in permanent paralysis from the waist downwards.
The data suggests that flippers have begun to adjust their expectations downwards. Times, Sunday Times
We traveled downwards for a while, as I watched the darkness and listened to the gentle pattering of tiny feet and the drip of water falling into a pool.
With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.
Let the rounded end of a brass rod, 0.3 of an inch or thereabouts in diameter, point downwards in free air; let it be amalgamated, and have a drop of mercury suspended from it; and then let it be powerfully electrized. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
In places, slivers of oceanic crust were pushed upwards, rather than downwards. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The faults that define the edges of the basins dive downwards at a steep angle. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
She vaguely points downwards, as if alerting the darkening world to imminent nightfall.
Having meanwhile given his attention to architecture, he began the first cloister of the Monastery of Cestello, and executed that part of it that is seen to be of the Ionic Order; placing capitals on the columns with volutes curving downwards to the collarino, where the shaft of the column ends, and making, below the ovoli and the fusarole, a frieze, one-third in height of the diameter of the column. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
If canopy birds have a greater need to shift downwards than understory birds, the strata of canopy birds should be wider than those of understory birds.
The faults that define the edges of the basins dive downwards at a steep angle. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Words of encouragement and advice, and indeed a supportive phone call during the week, have always compensated any feeling of deflation at the scales refusing to go downwards.
Any such musings are abruptly brought to a halt by a sudden lurch downwards. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
It would be a sideways thing, rather than downwards. Times, Sunday Times
A passage in the book reads: ‘Now the Tree of Life extends from above downwards, and is the sun which illuminates all.’
The faults that define the edges of the basins dive downwards at a steep angle. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Pains originating from urinary system, such as the kidneys downwards to genital parts may all be classified as abdominal pains.
Soon they're learning how to fall safely and how to snowplough gently downwards.
But Christie regarded me as altogether a doomed and predestinated child of perdition, who was sure to hold on my course, and drag downwards whosoever might attempt to afford me support. Chronicles of the Canongate
The margin of a water hazard extends vertically upwards and downwards.
A bead of redness appeared where the tip had dimpled the skin, grew, then trickled downwards.
The small trees that grew about it shivered in their leaflessness; the rank grass was wan under the failing day; most of the stones leaned this way or that, emblems of neglect (they were very white at the top, and darkened downwards till the damp soil made them black), and certain cats and dogs were prowling or sporting among the graves. The Nether World
By reading the afore-mentioned three columns horizontally and _onwards_, instead of vertically and _downwards_ "in the old trite vulgar way," it was contended that much mirth might observingly be distilled from the most unhopeful material, as "_blind Chance_" frequently brought about the oddest conjunctions, and not seldom compelled _sub juga aenea_ persons and things the most dissimilar and discordant. De Libris: Prose and Verse
Some of them had steep, smooth walls that plunged into the sandy bottom, others undulated downwards.
= -- The leaves partake more or less of the altered direction of the axis, as in fastigiate elms, but this is not universally the case, for though the stem is bent downwards the leaves may be placed in the opposite direction; thus in some specimens of Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Inflation is moving firmly downwards.
The familiar duckweed which covers the surface of a pond consists of a tiny green "thalloid" shoot, one, that is, which shows no distinction of parts -- stem and leaf, and a simple root growing vertically downwards into the water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
There's a valve between the gullet and stomach which is supposed to be one way - it lets food flow downwards. The Sun
This was all too easy, he thought, as he gathered her up in his arms, her feet over one and her neck drooping dreamily downwards over the other.
They'd started moving downwards when the sounds of shouting, feet, and equipment jangling drifted up.
In places, slivers of oceanic crust were pushed upwards, rather than downwards. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
For those who purify their hearts [reading purificantes enim corda, by conjecture for purificantia enim concordal] both see visions, and placing their head downwards (!) also hear manifest voices, as saving as they are secret "(Tertullian, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Instead, raise that will make the line look wonky when and sweep a line downwards from the outside in. Times, Sunday Times
This was the katabatic wind rolling down off the polar plateau, picking up speed from the slow gravitational forces that pulled it downwards over the vast expanses of ice.

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