What's the difference between heavenward and skyward?
Heavenward
Definition:
(a & adv.) Toward heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) He looks heavenward in prayer: "Pardon, Richard; they know not what they do."
(2) Gawain grips the axe and heaves it heavenwards, plants his left foot firmly on the floor in front, then swings it swiftly towards the bare skin.
(3) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
(4) We’re talking about several countries which for their own reasons wanted to grant asylum for people from the national service.” During an interview at the information ministry sitting on top of a hill along with the state broadcaster overlooking Asmara, Meskel rolled his eyes heavenward before answering each question.
(5) And of course, the most famously iconic image from the film is that of a stripped Andy standing with his arms outstretched, his head turned heavenward, in a moment of agony and ecstasy clearly resembling the crucifixion.
(6) They had bought the ethereal idea of "the cloud", that benign mystical repository of all knowledge and data; when she asked them where they thought it was, they all looked heavenwards.
(7) His turfing out of Michael Portillo from Enfield Southgate was the emblem of Labour's 1997 landslide - recorded in the bashful yet gleeful manner with which he rolled his eyes heavenward on hearing the result.
(8) Some of the followers of William Miller in 1844 sat on top of their homes, so that when they were raptured heavenwards they would not crack their heads on the ceiling.
(9) The device that Steve Jobs, chief executive and co-founder of Apple , will unveil at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is variously predicted to transform our experience of reading electronic versions of books, newspapers and magazines (there are publishing executives clasping their hands heavenwards with that fervent wish); of watching TV and video; of surfing the web and playing games; even of making internet video calls.
Skyward
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Toward the sky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(2) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(3) Richard was the favourite from the outset, efficient pencil tucked behind his ear, graphite tip pointing skywards like his ambition.
(4) The sense of foreboding that surrounded Leicester City after they sent eyebrows everywhere skywards by replacing Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri during a difficult summer has been blasted away by a team whose desire to prove a point has brought them six from their first two matches.
(5) In the videos the three skyward leg-halves switch and lean creaking towards each other, sway away again like cranes triple-knitting, as it walks the muck on spudcap feet.
(6) The cranes soar skywards over the sprawling building work taking place beneath the Mecca Royal Clock Tower, the world’s third-tallest building.
(7) My father had explained one much-earlier night, as we gazed skyward, that when we look at stars we are seeing the past, and now I understood what that really meant.
(8) We saw how workers will be whisked skywards at a stomach-dropping 18mph in fully glazed lifts.
(9) As part of my campaign for better Titanic metaphors, I'd compare them to the SS Californian, steaming away from the wreck as the flares shoot skyward, passengers scream and the band plays Nearer My God, To Thee.
(10) Last year the California heatwave lifted 63tn gallons of groundwater from the drought-stricken state, allowing its main mountain range to jump half an inch skyward.
(11) It is a vertical expression of the Square Mile’s medieval street pattern, forced skywards by global finance and massaged by reactive planning – the chaotic cocktail of invisible forces shaping the city.
(12) Or at least looking skywards for a little slice of luck.
(13) He wallops it on the rump as plumes of ash from burning dung billow skywards.
(14) Kyle Walker presented Nacer Chadli with a chance to open the scoring after 48 minutes but the Belgian sent his shot skywards from 12 yards.
(15) That rickety seesaw might fling your child skywards.
(16) "With SSE's price hike coming into effect next Monday and now Britain's biggest supplier announcing a rise of its own, the writing is on the wall for consumers this winter – energy bills are going skywards."
(17) Because crime has dropped like a stone over recent decades while NHS need heads skywards, with growing numbers of the old, and collapsing social care.
(18) If they don't finish it, dairy supports could expire at the end of the year and send the price of a gallon of milk skyward.
(19) For years, he had been caught on camera with his hair swirled high in the air, exposing his bald dome, his golden hairs standing on end, 12 inches skyward.
(20) Because the ommatidia in question are oriented skyward, their peculiar structure is discussed with respect to several concepts of polarized light detection by the bee.