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Example sentences for "skywards"

Lexicographically close words:
skysail; skysails; skyscraper; skyscrapers; skyward; slab; slabbed; slabe; slabery; slabes
  1. Here the Huns halted, looking skywards to see if the battleplane was still in sight.

  2. The effect was tremendous, and it evidently astonished the enemy to see their miners going up skywards in fragments.

  3. All rose and clustered in a corner in some consternation, expecting to go skywards with the crockery.

  4. On the slopes above are dotted tiny dwellings, and church towers point skywards in most unexpected places.

  5. The Italians and the Germans fill it to overflowing at all seasons of the year, and prices are mounting skywards with a rapidity which would do credit to Monte Carlo itself.

  6. There had been a grey, slanting ghost-swish above, and his brother had vanished skywards from within an inch of his side.

  7. He soared above her skywards until he was a mere speck in the blue.

  8. Suddenly Oberfurst's cogitations were interrupted by the sight of a cloud of smoke leaping skywards from the cruiser.

  9. The next instant the balloon, captive no longer, was soaring skywards at a dizzy rate, the bullet having accomplished the task that the wire cutters had failed to do.

  10. A dense black cloud thrown skywards by the detonation threw such a dark shadow that sunlight gave place to a gloom resembling twilight.

  11. The sentry had ceased his monotonous pacing to and fro, and now stood, resting on his rifle, looking skywards in the direction of the approaching aeroplane.

  12. By this time, however, he was out of danger, and, though a searchlight waved frantically skywards it never once focussed itself upon him.

  13. With the release of the ballast the undamaged Zeppelin shot skywards until her altitude was not less than ten thousand feet.

  14. Gilroy, as a column of water tore skywards on the far side of the luckless vessel.

  15. Further conversation was rudely interrupted by the crash of a gun from ashore, and a thin trail of dim light climbed skywards in a curve as a tracer shell[37] hurtled its way through the air.

  16. The lamp, still alight, slipped to the ground, its rays directed skywards like a miniature searchlight.

  17. A dense cloud of smoke and dust leapt skywards at the distance of a furlong in front of the Tank.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skywards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.