(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.
Toward
Definition:
(prep.) Alt. of Towards
(adv.) Alt. of Towards
(prep.) Approaching; coming near.
(prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
(prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(6) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(7) Normal and tumor cell cultures exhibited increased sensitivity toward TNF in the presence of mifepristone.
(8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(9) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(10) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(11) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(12) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(13) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(14) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(15) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(16) An N-acetylation polymorphism is described that is expressed toward arylamine carcinogens in tumor target organs of an inbred rat model.
(17) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(18) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(19) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(20) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.