Pronunciation of the English word upward.
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1. | The smoke went upward through the chimney. | |
2. | The yen was revalued upward against the U.S. dollar from a rate of 360 yen against the dollar to 308 yen on December 18, 1971. | |
3. | The kite went upward. | |
4. | The party tickets go for ten dollars and upward. | |
5. | Capital investments planned by major Japanese businesses for this year have been revised upward in view of an improving economic outlook. | |
6. | His car cost him upward of ten thousand dollars. | |
7. | He was looking upward to the sky. | |
8. | Prices are on the upward trend. | |
9. | Did you know that the proper way to wear a cummerbund is with the pleats facing upward? | |
10. | The pagan nations of antiquity always had a tendency to worship the sun, under different names, as the giver of light and life. And their festivals in its honor took place near the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the sun in December begins its upward course, thrilling men with the first distant promise of spring. |