the heavens
plural noun
: the sky
the brightest star in the heavens
Note: When the heavens open (up) it means it starts to rain.
The game had to be stopped when the heavens opened up.
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Expand All Millions in Texas are counting down the hours to midday Monday when all will crane their necks up to the heavens as a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical wonder passes across what many hope will be a speckless sky.
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David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2024
Here are just three of the many times that a total solar eclipse has transformed our views of the heavens, Earth and everything in between.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2024
But when astronomers finally turned it toward the heavens, Webb delivered wonders.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
In the two years since the telescope has performed like a champ, capturing phenomenal images of the heavens and collecting data about distant planets.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
College football is finally back, praise the heavens and the saints and the touchdowns and the haints.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
This mission is undertaken with the help of a magical anthropomorphic wishing star that falls from the heavens, beeping, whizzing and giggling, in the process giving Asha’s animal sidekick, an adorable baby goat in pajamas (Alan Tudyk), the gift of human speech.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
By unleashing the overwhelming destruction of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer pretty clearly stole a kind of fire from the heavens and gifted it to humans.
—Paige Hagy, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
Chin tilted toward the heavens, Prime Time whispered into the microphone, soft like butter.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2024
Here are just three of the many times that a total solar eclipse has transformed our views of the heavens, Earth and everything in between.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2024
But when astronomers finally turned it toward the heavens, Webb delivered wonders.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
In the two years since the telescope has performed like a champ, capturing phenomenal images of the heavens and collecting data about distant planets.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
College football is finally back, praise the heavens and the saints and the touchdowns and the haints.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
This mission is undertaken with the help of a magical anthropomorphic wishing star that falls from the heavens, beeping, whizzing and giggling, in the process giving Asha’s animal sidekick, an adorable baby goat in pajamas (Alan Tudyk), the gift of human speech.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
By unleashing the overwhelming destruction of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer pretty clearly stole a kind of fire from the heavens and gifted it to humans.
—Paige Hagy, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
Chin tilted toward the heavens, Prime Time whispered into the microphone, soft like butter.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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“The heavens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20heavens. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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