Sentence examples for straight overhead from inspiring English sources

Jupiter, straight overhead, was so bright that it cast shadows of the nearby ponderosa and bristlecone pines.

Back flips are popular, with variations like letting go of the handlebars or trying to freeze momentarily with the snowmobile straight overhead.

ASK an Ecuadorean and you may be told that the reason the country's roses grow so splendidly tall and straight is that they are striving to reach the equatorial sun, straight overhead.

SN1987A, as it is known, was the nearest supernova to be discovered since humans started using telescopes, and it sent astronomers rushing to observatories in Chile and Australia where the star was dying straight overhead.

Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference At noon on the summer solstice in the Egyptian town now called Aswan, the sun hovers straight overhead: objects cast no shadow and sunlight falls directly down a deep well.

The sun was straight overhead, but the heat felt as if it were coming from down below, from the asphalt, emanating upward through my shoes and legs and out through my scalp.

This pair actually bicker like a long-married couple, but the riches are limitless: "It was midday, and the straight-overhead sun rendered the water invisible.

Here, two black targets sailed straight up and overhead into the sun and disappeared.

But when the women converge for the final trio, their severity — wrists crossed with straight arms held overhead or in front of the body — and their gestural fitfulness are pallid and mechanical.

At the same time, extend both arms to straight bringing dumbbells overhead.

Engine: straight-eight, twin overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, 420ci., 265bhp at 4,200rpm; gearbox: three-speed manual; suspension: beam axle to front, live axle to rear, semi-elliptic leaf springs all around; brakes: servo-assisted hydraulically operated drum all around; left-hand drive.