Meanings
- not comparableFacing or directed toward the ceiling.
Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.
1971, Eaton K. Goldthwaite, The Marble Forest, Doubleday, page 412 more examples
". . . Did you see what she upstairs had delivered today?" one woman huffed with a ceilingward glance and a dripping poke of her thumb in the vague direction of the Snooks.
2008, D. M. Cornish, Lamplighter, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 141Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval.
2012, Kathy Lette, The Boy Who Fell to Earth, Bantam, →ISBN, page 59
- not comparableToward the ceiling.
Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.
1949, Frank Kane, Green Light for Death, Prologue Books, published 2012, →ISBN2 more examples
“Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”
1989, Sandra Brown, Long Time Coming, Bantam Dell, published 2006, →ISBN, page 76Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.
2002, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Vectors, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 118
Origin
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