from above

idiom

: from a higher place or position

It looks like a cross when viewed from above.

: from someone with greater power or authority

waiting for orders from above

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Performers swing from lampposts suspended from above as pin-sharp projections turn the stage into city streets followed by a marble floor, a grassy landscape with autumn leaves blowing in the wind and an ocean which ripples. —

Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 With Usher proudly surveying the scene and a DJ supplying the soundtrack, several scantily clad dancers recreated a strip-club environment complete with poles and showers of money raining down from above. —

Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024 One of the documents claimed Israel could strike Iran without the U.S. seeing any further visual clues from above. —

Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024 This smells like: Falling into a bed of white flowers while petals swirl down from above. —

Jenny Berg, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for from above