Examples of skyward in a Sentence
Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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As construction on the 34-story Bally’s Chicago hotel steadily rises skyward over the Ohio Street feeder ramp, things are looking up for the region’s casinos in 2026 amid a building boom that is reshaping the gambling landscape.
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Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
That was what happened this year, as the red line rocketing skyward in the graph below shows.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
The Panthers — as fire shot skyward along their path — came out about a minute later.
—CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
Crossfire’s drone carries a water balloon skyward, finds the fire, and drops the balloon.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2025
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 20 Jan. 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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