Sentence examples for facing the ceiling from inspiring English sources

You can do this by asking students to lie on their backs with their arms by their sides, palms facing the ceiling, and feet about 12 inches apart.

He led Thomas and me, as well as another couple, down a dark hallway, where he lined four of them on the floor, about 10 feet apart and facing the ceiling, all turned off.

The front of the plane was severely damaged by fire, and seats beginning at Row 36 were broken, with the backs of some seats facing the ceiling — supporting Boeing's claim that the movement of the plane exceeded the certification standards.

Can you feel when there's up and down or if your head is facing the ceiling rather than the floor?

Instead, if you wish to point something out to a fellow traveller, use your right hand, open, with the palm facing the ceiling.

Then we crab walk, also moving on all fours, this time with our chest facing the ceiling.

As she faces the ceiling of the Guatemalan children's clinic, her cheeks bulge with oedema fluid normally seen amongst the elderly or pregnant.

Unfortunately, that display faces the ceiling, so while it is easy to see when standing next to it, it is impossible to read from the couch.

Ms. Mac Low, by nature a more subversive choreographer, begins her "Double Public Blunder: Monster-us" strapped with a harness to Michael DiPietro's back; he walks bent forward as she faces the ceiling, kicking her feet into the air.

The distal femoral fragment is rotated until the patella faces the ceiling.

On a porcine model, unlike a human patient, the eyes are facing the floor while supine, making sonography more difficult than on a human subject whose eyes would face the ceiling while supine.