Example sentences
When the coating cracks, the cracks spread downward and reach the underlying channels, which ooze out healing agent.
Then the full scoop tips downward, spilling its water to the ground and raising the other scoop, which begins to fill with rain.
Prolonged labour market weakness at the bottom of the wage ladder means prolonged downward pressure on wages.
Clericalism contributed its full share to this downward progress.
Today's suburbs display a colored zenith tapering downward to a brighter horizon.
For mere mortals, it has come to signify any big downward move in a portfolio's value.
The downward plunge is the closest you can come to being swallowed up by the city.
As the depression gathers more water, the water leaks downward and eats away at more bedrock, catalyzing its further dissolution.
Monotheism posits a downward projection of morality, determined arbitrarily before humanity began.
With its long, downward-curved bill, the thrasher runs at any other bird that so much as dares to land on the feeder.