Look skywards!. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He turned his head skywards a fraction, and smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Not the End of the World]
It rocketed skywards in the last minutes of trading. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008] Reference
It isto the poorer that loan rates will shoot skywards. From Wordnik.com. [Depositing pain] Reference
Kennet slid back the port wing door and gazed skywards. From Wordnik.com. [San Andreas]
As for Lord George he fired skywards and so the duel ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
Peachy face set skywards, baby eyes fierce with determination. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Step] Reference
He soared above her skywards until he was a mere speck in the blue. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
George said, with a puff of his cigar, which went soaring up skywards. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
But o'erlook me not for I mush roving evolving clouds skywards any season. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
A horrid gurgling welled out of his throat as he tilted his face skywards. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
A few of the probationers were squinting skywards, hands shading their eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection Men]
When the dust settled, all we could see was blokes looking skywards and waving. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
Unprepared for the recoil, he was thrown backwards, his rifle pointing skywards. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
The shuttle wooshed skywards, leaving lo's miniature landscape laid neatly out below. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Wheel]
They know vast swathes of our cities are on benefits, they can see prices going skywards. From Wordnik.com. [Where it all went wrong for Brown: he's addicted to Brownies] Reference
With dry lips, they looked skywards for a wisp of cloud that might give them hope of succour. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Instinct: Under the rain Tree] Reference
Immediately a jet of superheated steam roared skywards, obscuring much of the peak from view. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Bank Manager, knelt at an open window, his arms resting on the sill, his face turned skywards. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
The armor-piercing shot struck the Tiger at a sharp angle as it turned, and ricocheted skywards. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
Night came, and with it the raging, red flames springing skywards from the roof of the Tuileries. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
A second star shell hissed skywards, but before it broke the men had reached the base of the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
Just before the dawn a great flame shot skywards, an orange ribbon across the purple robe of dying Night. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
One of the sailors had lit a cooking fire on the ballast stones and the heat from the flames shimmered skywards. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
One -- and he never tired of watching the bellowing monsters climb up skywards on their white-hot pillars of flame. From Wordnik.com. [By Proxy] Reference
Now they sat up and listened; now they flung their white tails skywards, and vanished down some friendly seeming alley. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
There had been a grey, slanting ghost-swish above, and his brother had vanished skywards from within an inch of his side. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
As I stepped out of the Gare du Nord all the people were looking skywards at two Taubes which had just dropped several bombs. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
Pa un ai gwlaw, neu hindda? and then having said these words, the insect was thrown skywards, the person repeating the while. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
I was opening my door, which was half sloping skywards, and hauling myself out more or less before the engine had time to stall. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
In any case, within seconds, hundreds of hands pointed skywards towards a solitary black dot, moving towards them from the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Messenger, Chapter 1] Reference
I had often wondered, when hand-rearing a young bird, why it hoisted its bottom skywards with much waggling when it wanted to excrete. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
The great grey breakers heaved themselves skywards, paused for half a second, split and crashed down upon the rocks the next morning as. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
Before her rose the great Temple, glistening white in the sunlight, rearing its majestic pillars skywards, throwing shadows to the west. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
CLANCY: They must be looking - there must be a jumbotron (ph) out there, because we saw all of the -- all of the gazes are fixed skywards. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006] Reference
He nipped among the monuments, cuffing aside pilgrims who were dutifully staring skywards as their guides described the stone dignitaries. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
The birds were hurriedly leaving the dam and I looked skywards to see whether it could have been a crow or buzzard that had disturbed them. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Achvaneran] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.