How to Use uptrend in a Sentence

uptrend

noun
  • Since the second week of June, cases in Ohio have been on the uptrend.
    cleveland, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Beyond that, the main thing — in Uptown as in the city at large — is to put a lid on the uptrend in crime.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
  • There is next support at the uptrend (line b), and then at the July lows.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The Nasdag 100 Advance/Decline line is still in an uptrend from the June lows, line c.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Earnings have been spotty, but seem to be in an uptrend.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This is a further strong sign that the major uptrend has resumed.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The monthly chart shows a flag formation (lines a and b), which is consistent with a pause in the overall uptrend.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Small caps and some of the value sectors need the Fed to start cutting rates to begin a more meaningful uptrend in these stocks.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • The weekly chart shows gold’s channel pattern as well as an uptrend line that started in early-2019.
    Jesse Colombo, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Daily new infections in the U.S. have been on the uptrend over the last few weeks, driven by the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the virus.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In last week’s mid-month reading, the sentiment rose to 69, after testing the uptrend, line b.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Technically, the stock is in a steep downtrend and a lot more time and price are needed before a new uptrend emerges.
    Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • IBM shares fell about 5 percent in after-hours trading, a retreat from a recent uptrend for the stock.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2016
  • The current decline looks like a normal pullback in an uptrend.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Shipments and orders of nondefense capital goods had been on a steady uptrend over the first eight months of 2017.
    Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • And oil is now in a strong uptrend, with demand steadily increasing.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Even with the lull in prices, demand for bitcoin has been on an uptrend since May, based on the growing amount of whales holding the cryptocurrency.
    Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • The decline of middle-skill employment and uptrend in low- and high-skill jobs could be among those structural issues.
    Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
  • The daily chart for Microsoft shows a strong uptrend that began before the beginning of this chart.
    Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Kim says that uptrend may be because of – not in spite of – the current turmoil in the entertainment industry.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Now that 30% of the US population has had at least one dose of the vaccines and some states are starting to reopen, real estate should be on an uptrend.
    Michael Foster, Forbes, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Many investors viewed the sell-off as a necessary pullback in what has been a seemingly endless uptrend in the market.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Eversource Energy is one that may be early on in a new uptrend.
    David Keller, CNBC, 25 July 2024
  • At the same time, the cooling is unlikely to derail what’s been a gradual uptrend in sales that’s helping the housing market make progress.
    Fortune, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Tech has been the leading sector since January, and the decline on Wednesday did not put key stocks in jeopardy of losing their uptrends.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the selloff that has erased $250 billion from the value of tech shares is threatening to end the industry’s longest stretch of uptrend in more than two decades.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
  • The rally had stopped below the former uptrend, line b, which had become resistance.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Resurging prices at the pump could send inflation and spending measures back on an uptrend—and prompt the Fed to raise interest rates higher, and keep them there for longer.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • But the supply side uptrend has to be met with an equal rise in demand for the Indian economy to see a solid return to growth, experts said.
    Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The uptrend in the ratio accelerated in May as the resistance, line b, was overcome.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 16 July 2023

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