skywards
IPA: skˈaɪwɝdz
adverb
- In the direction of the sky; upwards.
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Examples of "skywards" in Sentences
- His soul then left his body and soared skywards.
- The sabres point skywards in a salute to victory.
- Skywards is not an airline or an airline alliance.
- Etymology. and, the upturned fish seeming to stare skywards.
- You are that bottle of syrup that will never empty because you are from the heart of the source, growing skywards each day.
- You could try the vole's eye-view, laying the camera with a wide angle lens on the ground, pointing skywards to capture the tracery of grasses and flowers on a blue canvas.
- By any standards it is a remarkable rise – but it is made more so because Fey is rocketing skywards as a successful woman in the overwhelmingly male-dominated world of comedy.
- The first scrum collapsed and yielded a free-kick for England, the second headed skywards and produced a penalty for Wales, which James Hook could not quite land from 50 metres.
- On a cool overcast day in the California desert, the Dane threw both arms skywards to celebrate her second title of the year, having also triumphed at the Dubai championships last month.
- A wide fissure, with hopelessly vertical sides, yawned skywards from a foam-white vortex where the mad waters shot their level a dozen feet upward and dropped it as abruptly to the black depths of battered rock and writhing weed.
- After the anti-climax of Nasa's upper atmosphere research satellite UARS falling into the Pacific ocean, rather than on anyone's head, it will be only a few weeks until we need to start anxiously peering skywards once more for the return of Rosat, a German x-ray satellite telescope.
- Five poets were beheaded that day, their heads rolled off the scaffold to the dirt and faced skywards; the heads were smiling, the executioner, putting down his obscenely large scythe was aghast at the sprites, nymphs and muses that oozed out of the dead poet's necks; shook off blood and proceeded to whistle pretty songs of poems that would never be written down or read by anyone.
- When Zanganeh follows two pages accurately describing Nabokov's detestation of the most harmless speculation about his married life with a sketch of how VN might have entered his wife's room in Montreux to find her "lying naked, supine, gray-blue eyes lifted skywards", one may assume that a point about the necessary indecency of a writer's voyeurism, as opposed to a journalist's or biographer's, is being made.