SOAR in a Sentence

soar

 v.  fly aloft, as a bird; mount upward on wings; rise in thought or spirits

1  She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4

2  And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.

3  The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVII

4  The music of the trampling feet, the sharp voices, the clanking arms of the column near him made him soar on the red wings of war.

The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11

5  Souls that shall gladly soar and sing.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

6  I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

7  It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10

8  'Even in our professional correspondence,' said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, 'the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression.'

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP

9  They soar to heaven, and soaring sing.

Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX

10  Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith soar in Enjolras.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC

11  The tall ash echoes to the axe's strokes; they overturn pines that soar into the sky, and busily cleave oaken logs and scented cedar with wedges, and drag mountain-ashes on their groaning waggons.

The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH

12  The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yelling enthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II

13  Scarlett's spirits soared at his laugh and she blessed Melanie's tact.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

14  With the new fall of currency, prices soared again.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

15  Now that she could catch fleeting glimpses of the sun, her spirits soared.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

1  Air pollution will soon soar above safety levels.

2  Temperatures will soar into the eighties over the weekend say the weather forecasters.

3  Everything is now for the future of dream weaving wings, soar to great heights to dream in reality.

4  Insurance claims are expected to soar.

5  Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.

6  But despite increasingly severe warnings from scientists and a major economic recession, global emissions have continued to soar unchecked.

7  Profits have soared dramatically in recent months.

8  The price of petrol has soared in recent weeks.

9  The popularity of indie bands has soared in recent years.

10  Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

11  Tom Sawyer stepped forward with confidence and soared into the indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

12  With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.

13  Across the Washington region, enrollment in therapeutic camps soars every year, although they are far more expensive than traditional day camp.

14  No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

15  A bird is soaring into the sky.