Downwards used in a sentence

Downwards in a sentence as an adverb

They hire sycophants who kiss upwards and amplify pressure downwards.

Am I the only person who sees flat "$X/mo" prices and rapidly adjusts their trust in the provider downwards?

When you "guarantee" workers 4-5 weeks of vacation, who's to say your comp isn't being adjusted downwards to compensate?

The radioactive particles have been slowly washed downwards in the soil, which explains the soil surface figures.

The number of targets could dramatically be revises downwards depending on that.

The cart plugged into a component that looked like a harmonica and then pressed downwards, levering against a pretty heavy spring.

I expect that we are probably going to see the peak mass-energy-resource-environment-consumption per person in the US peak in the next 10 years, then start inexorably trending downwards for a very long time after that.

The author explains that the track is applying a downward force on the inverted coaster: but that force would surely combine with gravity to accelerate the coaster downwards, which is the opposite of the apparently observed phenomenon we're trying to explain here.