the heavens

plural noun

: the sky

the brightest star in the heavens

Note: When the heavens open (up) it means it starts to rain.

The game had to be stopped when the heavens opened up.

Examples of the heavens in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Although the facilities have brought Hawaii international acclaim in astronomy and have helped to boost the local economy, Native Hawaiians have long regarded the summit as their spiritual connection to the heavens. —

Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024 The stars came down from the heavens and touched me, dancing all around, incredibly bright. —

Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024 The vantage then rises above the city and the bay, and then out of the atmosphere and into space—a vision of the heavens that outdoes even the splendor conjured, in planetariums of old, by the double-ended Zeiss Mark VI projector. —

Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 While Charlotte was standing with George between the heavens and the earth and his heart was calling her name, Lady Danbury was down bad for Violet’s father, a married man who couldn’t be seen with her in public. —

Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 24 June 2024 The first casts Wilson as a Sixties-style crooner in a blue pantsuit and hair to the heavens, placing her on the stage of a TV variety show where cameras capture a whole lot of shimmying. —

Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2024 Unfortunately, at precisely the moment when the nuclear standoff is extending all the way to the heavens, Cold War-era arms control treaties of all types are falling by the wayside. —

Joshua Keating, Vox, 12 Apr. 2022 If von Stade’s spirit and voice soars to the heavens, the Bay Area has also produced singers weaned on gravel, mud and fire water. —

Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024 Expand All Millions in Texas are counting down the hours to midday Monday when all will crane their necks up to the heavens as a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical wonder passes across what many hope will be a speckless sky. —

David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2024

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