Sentence examples for stretched upward from inspiring English sources

For the next nine hundred and fifty miles, the Russian mainland stretched upward into the Arctic, forcing us to head northeast through the Kara Sea.

The prophet Ezekiel, looking into the northern sky, witnesses a blazing whirlwind, "a fire infolding itself," out of which appear four creatures, their wings "stretched upward" — soaring angels sent by a creator in Heaven.

"Marble Arm," a life-sized arm and hand, its middle finger stretched upward in a vulgar gesture, served as a small symbol of dissent at the booth of Galerie Urs Meile, which has branches in Switzerland and Beijing.

"We're dying from the inside out in this country because of hatred," said Mr. Strickler, a social worker, his papier-mache wings stretched upward from the memorial outside the county courthouse.

Driven nearly 100 feet below the river on either end, the cables stretched upward like a pair of suspenders over two 380-foot towers, supporting a 1,750-foot 1,750-footroving that man could tame nature.

A few feet away was a large robot constructed entirely from vintage television sets, by the Korean-American video artist Nam June Paik, and "The Embodiment of Tree," by the Japanese sculptor Ikki Miyake — a wooden figure of a woman with her hands stretched upward above her head.

The towers of light gave us comfort in their stretching upward toward infinity.

Limbs, organs and blood vessels stretch upward from the bubbling water, blossoming into plants and flowers when they find air.

As the uterus increases in size, the tubes stretch upward with it until they become two greatly enlarged elongated strands, one on each side of the uterus.

Its lot backs up to a 479-acre city park stretching upward into the Boise foothills, which are covered in scrub and sagebrush.

Rudolph found the same infinity on several floors of a tight Manhattan lot by turning Wright's idea of horizontal reach onto the vertical axis, to stretch upward.