ADJ.
against, all, great, grueling, red
VERB + UPHILL
climbed, club, drive, faced, faces, facing, fighting, go
UPHILL + NOUN
bicycle, downhill, hofmann, road, school, sections, task, way
PREP.
about, after, in, than, with, with
adv
Up a slope, towards higher ground.
With difficulty.
adj
Located up a slope or on a hill.
Going up a slope or a hill.
“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.
Difficult or laborious.
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.
noun
An uphill route.
adjective — sloping upward
A highly difficult task or problem that requires a great amount of effort and determination.
I would argue that flight attendants had a greater uphill battle in establishing their job as a profession, experience more disorienting time and space patterns, juggle a larger nu
To try to achieve a goal despite huge resistance or nearly futile awkwardness, the task being an uphill battle.
A Salesman Unaided by the House is Pushing Water Uphill.
“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.
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