How To Use Skyward In A Sentence

During the daytime, the snowcover reflects a significant portion of incoming radiational energy skyward or spaceward. USHCN Minimum Temperature Trends « Climate Audit
A huge enemy shell burst a few yards to the right front of the amtrack, hurling seawater skyward, as Sledge clung to the rail. Brotherhood of Heroes
The plane juddered skyward, helped no doubt by the mental efforts of 100 twitchy passengers willing it into the air.
Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward. HIGH STAND
Unexpectedly, out of instinct, I suppose, his gaze turned skywards.

I was startled out of my dream state when a pair of mergansers flapped their way down along the creek's surface, turning skyward in front of me like training jets.
Push your hips skywards so that your body is in one line until the bend of the knee. Times, Sunday Times
Zipping up the skinsuit well in advance of the finish line, he took the flowers with ease, punching the air with his right fist before grinning broadly and throwing his arms skyward. Bart Wellens wins 2011 Cauberg Cyclocross
Building momentum near the 3-point line, Griffin launched himself skyward from the right side of the lane. USATODAY.com
He took the hilt in his fist and held the sword skyward as he turned to his men. Stone of Tears
The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
Push your hips skywards so that your body is in one line until the bend of the knee. Times, Sunday Times
The camera is pointed skywards to show an impressive full moon, before the group step off the boat and along a wooden jetty. The Sun
No wonder Morshead's eyes regularly stray skyward, as dark clouds canter across furlongs of watery blue.
I lifted my head skyward and examined the ancient pine's naked branches and dying leaves.
Achaeus gazed skywards, hoping to ingrain the images into his memory forever.
Across the flat tableland are almost 100 red and orange monolithic sandstone buttes and mesas jutting skywards.
The strip strike set the hook, his speed and momentum carried the fish skywards, head shaking, gills flared.
Erik took a step away and then a fountain of flame sprang skyward. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
Push your hips skywards so that your body is in one line until the bend of the knee. Times, Sunday Times
The two-inch high flower appears to have a thumb and three fingers, one pointing skywards.
Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
The banks were lines of dusk, except where some lone cottonwood loomed skyward like a giant ghost clothed with a mantle that glistered and darkled in the chill star-sheen. The River and I
Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward. CHAPTER XXXIV
When she still hadn't reappeared later on this afternoon, I had visions of her having a supersized rocket strapped to her and her being launched skywards, a ball of singed fur and flame.
She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
The bird is flying skywards with all its might and there are only two things that can happen. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, he designed the double-skinned dome to be supported by a series of internal circumferential rings that would make the dome seem to rise skyward without any visible means of support. Jane Chafin: Brunelleschi's Dome
He raises his palms skyward and mouths a silent prayer.
After the US invasion of Kuwait in 1990, prices shot skywards.
Lifting her arms skyward, the beautiful Sara Baras thrusts out her chest and fiercely stomps her feet, embodying the tragic Mariana Pineda, the complex heroine of her most successful theater piece.
Males display from a chosen nest-site by waving wings and pointing the bill skyward, exposing the skin of the throat.
For the crews there was a moment of hope when a plume of darker smoke jetted skywards through the covering pall. Times, Sunday Times
And the euro, which had been in virtual free-fall, leapt skywards.
After the band hit its last note and shuffled off stage, fireworks went pop-pop-popping skyward from the pavilion roof. In concert: Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion
That is what we call the celestial nose, because it is always pointing skyward and serves as a perpetual interrogation point. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
The building’s glass stretched skyward from the sidewalk, turning back looks, and draining the features from their reflections. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Beach House fabric but beaming with a filigree delight of a huskier, woozier sound 'Norway' proved that beyond the catalogues that compared their psych-pop to the likes of Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500 and so on, Beach House had turned they're gaze skywards and beyond simple echoing harmonies. The Line Of Best Fit
Since the earliest times, man has gazed skyward, hoping to discern signs of good or ill fortune in the patterns of the stars.
Inside the building, escalators snake skywards but normal progress is blocked by a swarm of burly security guards. Times, Sunday Times
The burst of flash illuminates a mass of arms raised, index fingers and little fingers pointing skywards, in the time-honoured rock salute.
His skyward-looking subject matter suggests an indirect tribute to painters who used the form to enfold the sublime.
In minutes, a small but bright fire sent a thick stream of black smoke skywards.
Many of last year's perennials still have dead flower stalks pointing skyward.
Part was made of mirror-flakes, part was the old man, pointing skyward. EVERVILLE
But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be.
Without a view of Earth, telescopes built on the Moon could point in any skyward direction, without the risk of contamination from the Earth's electromagnetic emanations.
Fergus opened his mouth, brows arched skyward, then shut it again and turned without a word toward the black opening of the lych-gate, whence Jamie had disappeared. Drums of Autumn
We made our way past the little lake, stocked with dead trees, their branches reaching skywards through leftover mist.
Another loose stone dropped from the watchtower, and Jehan glanced from the gap in the crenelation to Sarron itself even as an entire section of the city wall collasped like a waterfall of stone and a huge gout of dust billowed skyward. The Order War
The steep slopes of the valley floor rise majestically skywards to provide the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Far from being inert, it takes in that which is found below and carries it skywards, serving as a base for other diminishing frontons that are set at the projection of the upper tiers.
Through the fog we see the distant peaks of the Kobowre Mountains, part of New Guinea's east-west backbone, which thrusts 16,000 feet skyward.
From the ground, the flowing lines of the columns that used to rise skyward to a height of 1,360 approximately looked like the slim trunks of a closely planted row of trees.
The higher than expected cost of protecting workers against insurgent attacks - about 25 cents of every reconstruction dollar now pays for security - has sent the cost of projects skyward.
McKenna had me look skyward to help release a burst of alpha waves, the ones that make you heighten your awareness.
For the crews there was a moment of hope when a plume of darker smoke jetted skywards through the covering pall. Times, Sunday Times
Adults and children alike braved rides at the funfair, which included a 75 foot high bungee capsule, propelling riders skywards on elasticated cables.
The need for the work to take place was graphically-illustrated when two of the ornate finials that point skywards at the top of the tower fell down.
Abby looked skyward and was greeted by the cry of an angry bird, warning her away from his meal.
Adam looked skyward from his precarious position on a roof beam of the house he was building.
The warmth of the sun caressed Alicia's skin as she briefly turned her face skywards.
He would bob his head, turn his back on the batter, look skyward or into the field boxes, then deliver the ball from a bewildering array of angles, overhand, sidearm or even underhand.
He suddenly felt like he was rocketing skyward at hypersonic speed.
A cross reaches skyward from the atrium of the 18th century Mision San Javier in Baja California Sur. A cross reaches skyward from the atrium of the 18th century Mision San Javier in Baja California Sur. © John McCaffery, 2001
Eagle-eyed residents have been craning their necks skyward to catch a glimpse of the beaked bandit but, so far, to no avail.
His three acres lay tilted skyward at the point where the rocks of the Honan mountains met what might charitably be called the arable fields. Hawaii
As one huge paw thrust a short sword skyward to pierce a low-hanging cloud, the liberated giant let out a roar that reverberated like thunder across the canyon. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
He sat there for a moment, gnawing his bottom lip in concentration as his eyes went skyward.
An aproned man in a tobacconist's window pressed his palms to the glass and looked skyward.
Watching cricket in this state you feel a bit like an American, or a toddler, or someone's press-ganged girlfriend: wreathed in mute bafflement, surprised by applause, wrenching your neck round to shriek "eh?" or "what?" every time the ball is hurled skyward or a bat waggled in triumph. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Taiyou embraced the girl for a few moments, turning her head skywards towards the Eternal Star.
I rose skywards like a water-moth for the sun, emerged and strapped on my diving gear for my next oceanic clear-cut.
Later on, as she was making dinner, she paused mid-stir with the wooden spatula deep into the Quorn mince and looked wistfully skywards.
Atop one of the lower hills, a lone building shaded by a grove of oaks stood watching over the rest; a white steeple protruding skyward from the shingled roof as if reaching for the heavens themselves.
Doubling curves are nearly flat for a long time, then voom, they take off skywards in a hot second.
Smoke, black and boiling , shot skyward from the stack.
Above the Ionic entablature, the vertical thrust from below is carried skyward by pedestals supporting kraters aligned with the engaged columns.
With a sudden jolt, the primary engines caught and the ship sped skywards on a comet of light.
He looked skywards, imploring silently to the heavens above, hoping for divine inspiration.
For the crews there was a moment of hope when a plume of darker smoke jetted skywards through the covering pall. Times, Sunday Times
Skyward (1984), which looks at the relationship between humans, birds and the environment was also the first stop-frame animation created for IMAX Dal LaMagna: My Friend, Derek Lamb
The shade went up, came down again, and shot skyward.
Wages raced skywards as companies fought to retain staff.
Dump trucks carry construction crews and equipment to nearby sites, where futuristic buildings reach skyward.
Keller looked over at the steam rising from the catapult on the forward deck, watched the sailors scurrying around to ready it to fire the next jet skyward.
If she looked skywards the leaves were green on the underside, and the light filtered softly through them. LOST SUMMER
They have brought the 4 exhausts into one, with the pipe curling around the front of the sidecar and then going skywards.
Sodden and anxious, riverbank dwellers gazed skywards as the heavens opened.
Arbors encourage you to look skyward, better to admire high-flying roses or pendant clusters of grapes.
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I did ask him once if he had discovered his love of all things skyward as a result of trying to look taller or the other way round. THE MANANA MAN
First it seems to suffocate everything, then it dances skywards up the stage tower.
They had seen my swooper shoot skyward out of control, and had followed it with their telultronoscopes until it had been caught in a gale at a high level, and wafted swiftly westward. The Airlords of Han
Sagramoso City itself was heavily guarded by skyward laser batteries, and these could not easily be neutralised.
To reach the apex of one's potential, one has to accomplish smaller goals and build skyward.
Within an hour the gentle slope has careened skyward, and with each step loose bits of scree tumble down on those unfortunate enough to be bringing up the rear.
A bullwhacker with his team of eight oxen pressed over the new layer of droppings, flourishing a long whip with skillful skyward sweeps. SEASONS OF GOLD
As evidence of the river system's health, our skipper points out a 2m bull shark as it leaps skyward and a brahminy kite wheels overhead.
Finally, a full hour into the laminectomy, Ivan victoriously thrust hammer and chisel skyward, signaling the job was completed. Body of Knowledge
The ball went flying skyward, our nuggetty Samoan centre, Viiga caught it and ran away and scored - we had it won.
But Irish motorists have been spared the worst effects of oil prices' skyward journey.
The Orson Welles broadcast of a four-decade-old H.G. Wells novel was so convincing that horrified listeners peered skyward for glimpses of tentacled invaders arriving in their war machines.
Reporters, microphones in hand, gazed skywards.
The wrists didn't move much but his students simultaneously snapped skyward in unison.
P would wear these semi-see-thru tops and her nipples would be poking through almost skyward in their pertness: they were amazing I tell you, I was transfixed.
Strings of spittle hanging from pointed teeth to lower lip reflected moonshine as the cadaverous head arched skywards.
For as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upwards like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skywards like a tree.
With supple and beautifully proportioned body, short gamine haircut that emphasizes her lovely features and luscious long legs that swoop effortlessly skyward, she magnetizes with every movement.
Thousands of visitors craned their necks skywards to watch skilful displays by the owners of the painstakingly-built giant model aircraft.
She walked with her shoulders back and her nose pointing skyward.
Next moment every head turned to gaze skywards as a brilliant red star flared into life high above Bethlehem House.
The rocket soared skywards.
After a week like no other, people turned a sad, wary eye skyward on their way to work.
The bird is flying skywards with all its might and there are only two things that can happen. Times, Sunday Times
‘Shiney’ didn't have time to kill the engine before the prop bit the ground, forcing the tail of the Hurricane skywards.
After the band hit its last note and shuffled off the stage, fireworks went pop-pop-popping skyward from the pavilion roof. FreeFest: For LDC Soundgarden, a roaring (and swirling) success
Of course, never straying skyward in the first place limits our exposure to bike wrecks, road rage, drive-bys.
But stars do not lend themselves to snapshots: point a camera skyward and push a shutter, and the film will record nothing.
Prague by day is a melee of tourists, heads cocked skyward, nodding in disbelief at yet another beautiful building.
Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
It's an exhilarating experience: crisp, high-altitude air, fresh powder, the search for grip as the snow makes a skyward plume in your wake.
Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building.
Yes, please, have the girly boy in the green dress hold his sword skyward so he gets struck by lightning and this is the last zelda game. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
The camera is pointed skywards to show an impressive full moon, before the group step off the boat and along a wooden jetty. The Sun
The structure itself is a pure white nonagonal building, of original and unique design, rising from a flight of white stairs encircling its base; and surmounted by a majestic and beautifully proportioned dome, bearing nine tapering symmetrically placed ribs of decorative as well as structural significance, which soar to its apex and finally merge into a common unit pointing skyward. God Passes By
At the final whistle the ball zinged out the ground, carrying with it only a modicum of the frustration which prompted Ferguson to smack it skywards in the first place.
I looked skywards and enquired loudly of The Man who gives us such weather: ‘Is this some kind of sick joke?’
As if some secret password has removed the laws of gravity for a moment, this massive jet bounds skywards.

How To Use Skyward In A Sentence

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