Examples of skyward in a Sentence
Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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Cheers erupted from SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, as the Starship rocket ignited and rumbled skyward.
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Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
Peasants and noblemen looked skyward, awestruck by the beast’s ferocious might.
—Bess Kalb, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
But most of the forays have resulted in Alex Morgan looking skyward in frustration.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
Still, some energy experts had expected the ongoing Israel-Hama war to push oil prices skyward.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
Moments later, a heavy explosive sent a plume of deep-red sand skyward.
—Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
When that plot finally does get rolling — and when Jung starts to fold in elements of a particularly rich and heart-open piece of source material — the play’s lungs expand and its actors get a chance to loft it skyward.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
Any dramatic move against Iran risks intensifying a regional conflict that the Biden administration wants to calm as much as possible, and restricting Iranian oil sales could send global gas prices skyward ahead of next year’s presidential election.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
The wind theoretically shouldn’t be a factor, as we are hemmed in by buildings on all sides, but this tree, some 60 years old, has strained skyward in search of sunlight.
—Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
Peasants and noblemen looked skyward, awestruck by the beast’s ferocious might.
—Bess Kalb, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
But most of the forays have resulted in Alex Morgan looking skyward in frustration.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
Still, some energy experts had expected the ongoing Israel-Hama war to push oil prices skyward.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
Moments later, a heavy explosive sent a plume of deep-red sand skyward.
—Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
When that plot finally does get rolling — and when Jung starts to fold in elements of a particularly rich and heart-open piece of source material — the play’s lungs expand and its actors get a chance to loft it skyward.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
Any dramatic move against Iran risks intensifying a regional conflict that the Biden administration wants to calm as much as possible, and restricting Iranian oil sales could send global gas prices skyward ahead of next year’s presidential election.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
The wind theoretically shouldn’t be a factor, as we are hemmed in by buildings on all sides, but this tree, some 60 years old, has strained skyward in search of sunlight.
—Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 5 Dec. 2023.
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skyward
adverb
sky·ward
ˈskī-wərd 
1
: toward the sky
gaze skyward
2
: to a higher level
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