Uphill

//ˈʌphɪl//

"Uphill" in a Sentence (13 examples)

After an uphill struggle against great odds they finally got the company on its feet again.

This is an uphill road.

Greenpeace is fighting an uphill battle to save the environment.

Our car pulled uphill.

The road is uphill all the way.

There's a grueling uphill stretch of road at mile 23 of the marathon.

It was an uphill struggle.

When I was your age, we had to walk uphill to school, both ways.

Mary used walking poles to assist her with the uphill and downhill sections of the journey.

"It's just a big circle, you get high, you get tricked, you get the money and you just keep going around and going around, and you have to break off all of them to even be doing okay." Breaking Free The women at Breaking Free support each other while they discuss the difficulty of leaving sex work It is an uphill battle. "I just need the support and to believe in myself that I can make it. It's a funny spot I'm in."

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“There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.” “So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.

The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.

For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.

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