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• His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.From the entry flawed
• It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.From the entry traipse
• However, all the hard work is done heading uphill with loaded flask trains.2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 22. From the entry dynamic brake
• Yet as a villain it’s not fully formed, which makes caring about the stakes an uphill climb.2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club. From the entry uphill climb
• The inventors face a similar uphill battle in their fight against the omnibus bill.1996 June 3, Sabra Chartrand, “Patents; Some independent inventors cry foul about an omnibus bill to reshape the patent system”, in The…. From the entry omnibus
• “It is an uphill battle,” said Dr.2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Uzma Syed, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New…. From the entry uphill battle
• Full gear, uphill, I can out-hike you.”2016, Darragha Foster, Consumed, →ISBN. From the entry out-hike
• The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning.2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107. From the entry dresser
• Persuading Kenny that measuring his calves did not require removal of his underpants and trousers was akin to pushing water uphill.2013, Zoë C Lloyd, All Patients Great and Small: Tales of a Rural District Nurse, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry push water uphill
• Without that commitment you will be pushing water uphill the whole time and will lose your own, necessary motivation.2012, Michael Roe, Marketing Professional Services, Routledge, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry push water uphill
• Beyond the car park a rough old track ran uphill.2010, John Marsden, The Ellie Chronicles: Incurable, unnumbered page. From the entry car park
• This uphill trail is like a battlefield.2009, Hape Kerkeling, I'm Off Then, page 241. From the entry block
• Those who weren’t immediately drowned raced uphill for the center of Atlantis, in the hope of restoring the balance.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry too little, too late
• Our convoy appeared as a huge centipede, winding its way uphill that had acquired various deadlegs at random.2001, Andrew Gurr, A Little Piece of England, page 79. From the entry deadleg
• Mine weighs 85 lbs and does help uphill.1994 September 1, Cycle0path, “Re: Electric Bicycle (again)”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 2019, message-ID…. From the entry e-bike
• The approach shot is uphill, guarded by bunkers, so if you miss it you're on your own in "tiger" country.1991, William H. Davis, Sally Peters, The world's best golf, page 286. From the entry tiger country
• But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.1987, R. Conrad, Act of Writing, page 17. From the entry rightways
• The other possible problem with uphill, downhill and crested roads is that bikes tend to wheelie over them.1983, Keith Code, notes and comments by Eddie Lawson, “The Road You Ride”, in A Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook…. From the entry wheelie
• Walking along the handle of the lollipop is a breeze—the perfect warm-up for the uphill climb at the beginning of the loop.2019, Joe Baur, Best Hikes Cleveland: The Greatest Views, Wildlife, and Forest Strolls (Best Hikes Near Series), Rowman & Littlefield…. From the entry lollipop
• My suggestion would be to electrify the uphill bits only, in each direction, and to use diesel traction when coming down the other side.2016 December 9, Andrew Clarke, “Re: Great Western Railway warns of slower journeys on new trains”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 10…. From the entry knitting
• The financial planning profession as a whole now faces an uphill battle to overcome the reputational damage caused by one large bad apple.2009 January 30, John Beveridge, “Bluster from Storm”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2009. From the entry reputational
• If you can drive a manual transmission, you have to be a clutch artist to handle brake, accelerator and clutch on an uphill start.2006 January 25, Douglas E. Emerson, “On a personal note”, in douglasemerson.com, retrieved 03 Mar 2015. From the entry clutch artist
• Turn right and go uphill on a wide trail that is pleasant despite being chopped up by hooves and made aromatic by horse apples.2003, Douglas Lorain, “Milo McIver State Park Loop”, in Laura Shauger, editor, Afoot & Afield Portland/Vancouver: A comprehensive hiking…. From the entry horse apples
• The mind likes facing downhill in the direction of travel better than it likes facing uphill while the body is traveling downhill.2002, Cindy Kleh, “Getting from Here to There (or Skating)”, in Snowboarding Skills: The Back-to-basics Essentials for All Levels (A…. From the entry heel turn
• The misty hills do not willingly nourish and nurture the human species any more than bongols willingly drag loads uphill for it.1998, Harold Strachan, Way up, way out, page 88. From the entry ja well no fine
• Running again in more open agricultural country, the Harrogate line encounters a short downgrade before the stiff uphill grind to Harrogate begins.1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101. From the entry grind
• He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind. From the entry plump
• I tried the next uphill turning.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 216. From the entry chalkpit
• The new arena doesn’t justify prolonging mediocrity instead of starting a rebuild even if it’s an uphill battle with the current state of our draft capital — Felician E.2024 May 28, Law Murray, “Clippers mailbag: Is James Harden a keeper? Are LA’s young stars still the future?”, in The Athletic, New York…. From the entry Felician
• You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path.1999, Ronald Turnbull, Walking in the Lowther Hills. From the entry scrambly
• The uphill ride on a chairway is a pleasant incident in the day's sport, because he is transported high enough above ground to enjoy the panorama.1948, Aerial Wire Rope Tramways, page 79. From the entry chairway
• At any rate, Gull had done a hurried repair job on the ship, for it was traveling with the labored toil of an old man walking uphill.1946 June, Ross Rocklynne, “The Bottled Men”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 37, number 4, page 89. From the entry off keel
• But Glenn Curtiss could push his "wheel," with those long legs of his, uphill, downhill or on the level, faster than any other boy in Hammondsport.1927 March, Popular Science, page 22. From the entry wheel

Meaning of uphill

1. adverb Up a slope, towards higher ground.
2. adverb With difficulty.
3. adjective Located up a slope or on a hill.

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Questions about uphill in a sentence

How do you use uphill in a sentence?

Uphill is used as an adverb, adjective and noun. For example: “His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.”

What is a short sentence with uphill?

“I tried the next uphill turning.”

What does uphill mean?

Uphill means up a slope, towards higher ground.