heavenward

Example Sentences

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Her finger is broadcast, aiming heavenward, on flat screens scattered around the show, like a motion detector that turns on lights in a dark alley to silently alert passersby of their endangered status.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

Never were there more fervent prayers borne heavenward.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2023

Absent are grand panoramic vistas; instead, the gaze is directed heavenward to the tops of 200-foot-tall Douglas firs and western red cedars.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022

This was their payment for prayers they’d launch heavenward in Mr. Moneybags’s honor.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

A gaping hole yawned where the nose should have been, and the bulging eyes gazed heavenward and to the left at something or someone off the edge of the canvas.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson