Bird soared high, touched clouds.

Meaning: The bird flew very high in the sky, and it even touched the clouds.

Choice of Words: Bird is an animal that has wings and can fly. Soared means to fly high in the sky. High means at a great distance above the ground. Touched means to come into contact with something. Clouds are white or gray masses of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky.

Alternative Expressions

The bird flew very high in the sky and reached the clouds.

Meaning: This means that the bird was able to fly all the way up to the clouds, which are very high in the sky.

Choice of Words: Bird is the subject of the sentence, flew is a verb that means to move through the air using wings, very high describes how high the bird flew, sky is the place where the bird flew, and reached means that the bird got to the clouds. Clouds are the white, fluffy things that you see in the sky.

The bird went up, up, and up until it was so high that it was touching the clouds.

Meaning: This means that the bird kept flying higher and higher until it was so high that it was almost touching the clouds.

Choice of Words: Bird is the subject of the sentence, went up is a verb that means to move higher, up, up, and up shows that the bird kept going higher and higher, until means that the bird kept going up until a certain point, so high describes how high the bird went, and touching means that the bird was close enough to the clouds to reach them. Clouds are the white, fluffy things that you see in the sky.

The bird flew so high that it was almost as if it was touching the clouds.

Meaning: This means that the bird flew very, very high, almost as if it was touching the clouds.

Choice of Words: Bird is the subject of the sentence, flew is a verb that means to move through the air using wings, so high describes how high the bird flew, that is a conjunction that connects two clauses, it was almost as if means that something is not exactly true but is very close to being true, and touching means that the bird was close enough to the clouds to reach them. Clouds are the white, fluffy things that you see in the sky.

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