Witness myself, looked up to among men, Doing noteworthy deeds: when here comes fate Lifts me away, like feather skyward borne, In one day!
Vallombrosa is three thousand feet above Florence--small wonder that we have been ascending skyward since we drove away from Pelago this morning!
I saw you as a vision skyward roaming, And I adored you just as thought and sky!
Towering up from its topmost summit, a tall column lifted a human figure in bronze skyward cloud-high and frequently higher still.
Then we are liable to go scooting skyward in a hurry!
They were expecting to be blown skyward at any moment.
Out on the highway two long, slender shafts of light slid across the mesa, dipped into an arroyo, and climbed skyward as a machine buzzed up the opposite pitch.
The two cabins of the Blue Mesa, hooded in white, thrust their lean stovepipes skyward through two feet of snow.
There a curious effect was to be seen, a high pointed cone of water shooting up skyward with terrific force, then rolling upon itself only to give way to another cone of water succeeding it.
White, well-defined radiations shot skyward from the west, where the sun had set, and stood out luminously against the dark blue sky, like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.
A peculiar kind of wild fig-tree was to be seen, ball-like in appearance, with branches inclined down instead of skyward like most trees.
This would have mattered little if they had slung their rifles in the usual way, pointing skyward or else towards the earth.
The sky was well covered by feathery radiations from the north-east, which were intersected by striations shooting skyward from east to west and forming a charming design.
The mothers, in despair, then proceeded to follow their children skyward up the liana.
These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels.
The instruments showed they were traveling skyward in a thin arc, as though sliding up the curve of an archer's bow.
Toward the north the sheer granite cliffs of the Phaedriades Mountains towered almost two thousand feet skyward to form a semicircular barrier, while down below the river Pleistos meandered through mile after mile of dark olive groves.
The Germans had gauged theirskyward path to London along which, apparently, they felt reasonably safe from gun-reach.
Another bomb detonated on the steel rails of the Walthamstow tram-line and sent them curling skyward from their rivetted foundations like serpentine wisps of paper.
A few weeks more, and he had taught the Pup to point his muzzle skyward and emit long, agonizing groans, the while he kept flapping the two tin plates against the bucket.
She saw the other mothers near by throw their bodies over those of their young, and lift their faces skyward with bared, defiant fangs.
Instead they are tucked away in gullies and leafy glens and excavated gun-pits, and their muzzles, instead of frowning down on the enemy from an eminence, stare blindly skyward from behind a wall of hills or mountains.
Instead of frowning down on the enemy from an eminence, they stare blindly skyward from behind a wall of mountains.
A shell struck a rather pretentious building, which was evidently the town hall; there was a burst of flame, and a torrent of bricks and beams and tiles shot skyward amid a geyser of green-brown smoke.
They were very beautiful: slender stems of fire arching skyward to burst into blossoms of brilliant sparks, which illuminated the band of shell-pocked soil between the trenches as though it were day.
The third skyward road is the alternation between the other two.
This skyward track, however, is fit only for the winged portion of the human species, for the smallest.
There he threw it skyward to a height of one hundred and fifty feet and let it fall into his hand.
There he threw it skywardto a height of ninety feet and let it fall into his hand.
The trade-ticker of the erstwhile wife of the whaler ticks skyward in the hymeneal Lloyd's; she is much sought of her own people.
Among the clustering granite houses, red and yellow roofed, thrust skyward tall spires and towers.
They drew together two thousand feet above us, clustering close about the foot of a single huge spire which thrust itself skyward above them.
Ahead could be seen the great ocean surges, flinging themselves skyward and bursting into roaring caps of smother.
Then the Reindeer swept skyward and hurtled across their bow to leeward on the breast of a mighty billow.
The lyrical verse herein is as a "Skyward floating feather, Sailing on summer air.
The sun rose like a white-hot ball in the brazen sky and the men held to the rails, mouths open, and stared ahead into the safe open water, expecting every moment for the Vulcan to spatter skyward in a volcano of fire and steel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skyward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: above; aloft; aloof; high; over; overhead; skyward; tiptoe; uphill; upstairs; uptown; upward
