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Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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Every year, crowds of people gather on A1A, crane their necks skyward and collectively lose their minds as the Air Force Thunderbirds tear across the sky at speeds that make your fillings hurt.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Lungs of Mother Earth's windpipe, constructed of twisted wood, extends skyward above the lungs.
—Isadora Pennington, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
Sharp antennae point skyward as feathers of adornment.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
And later, when water levels dropped, tectonics shifted, reefs grew, and the ice age locked away the planet’s water supplies into glaciers, and new faults thrust the land skyward to dry?
—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Lungs of Mother Earth's windpipe, constructed of twisted wood, extends skyward above the lungs.
—Isadora Pennington, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
Sharp antennae point skyward as feathers of adornment.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
And later, when water levels dropped, tectonics shifted, reefs grew, and the ice age locked away the planet’s water supplies into glaciers, and new faults thrust the land skyward to dry?
—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for skyward
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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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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