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UPWARD

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upward I. adjectiv

orientat / îndreptat în sus;

upward movement mişcare ascendentă.

upward II. adverb upwards.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“I tried to tell you, when we met today, something that has been in my thoughts since Dora died. You remember, when you came down to me in our little room—pointing upward, Agnes?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But it’s to trouble he’ll come with Wolf Larsen, as the sparks fly upward.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Her calm pale face, with dim, wide-opened blue eyes, looked upward from amid a great tangle of golden hair.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To travel upward.

(Ascend, NCI Thesaurus)

He stole a glance upward.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Height: 25.5 inches (65 cm.) and upward.

(Komondor, NCI Thesaurus)

He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

It was a stiff pull, but their weariness fell from them as they crouched low to the snow, whining with eagerness and gladness as they struggled upward to the last ounce of effort in their bodies.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

The large scarps were formed as Mercury’s interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one-and-a-half kilometers) high.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

I glanced at the serene face looking upward, and thought it was the stars that made it seem so noble.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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