skies

Example Sentences

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Operators like SpaceX’s Starlink are filling the skies with them to offer space-based broadband and mobile-phone connections, aiming to get a piece of a promising market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

On a pitch that had been under cover for the previous two days, under leaden skies and with showers forecast, England would have been desperate to win the toss.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

And on the theme of "pursuit of new horizons," there are artifacts from two pathfinding women who took to the skies.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Hours earlier, a rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos’s space company dramatically exploded on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., lighting up the skies for miles around Florida’s Space Coast late Thursday.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

He wanted to take advantage of the clear skies and sunshine that afternoon.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro