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Mr. Wells pressed on, in a peculiar flow state that Mr. St. George says he attributes to alien intervention, the result of an earlier contact with a mysterious light in the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The August full Moon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon, illuminated the sky over the UK on Thursday night.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The UFO script has varied little in the decades since: lights in the sky, claims of a coverup and a recurring lack of evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
We don’t go walking around looking up at the sky — the stuff that’s gonna come get us is somewhere on our eye level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The gray-blue sky seems to stretch out wider than usual this early on a weekend morning with no one else out to see it.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Any abnormal appearance in the skies, he observes, is “profoundly disorienting.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a technological society, UFOs become vehicles for defending the individual’s right to see the skies as he or she sees fit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
However, after long periods of clear skies this summer, the forecast for Friday morning is not overly positive.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her husky voice is familiar to pilots in Greek skies -- as are her outbursts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Regardless of Smith, who was also dropped on two, adding crucial extra runs until he skied Mahmud, this was a fine effort by Bangladesh after Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ravindra needlessly skied Atkinson and Nicholls edged Archer, keeping the home side in the contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
And there was joy in his face as he skied down the final descent, poles clutched in one hand, his other fist raised in triumph as he came through the line.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
He travels at roughly 5:20-mile pace, uphill, with his feet strapped to carbon-fiber planks, after he’s skied at top speed for several minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Rolf Sorlie skied back into the mountains and disappeared.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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Making secure her place; Guiding her surely as the worlds through space Do laws sidereal; edicts, thunder-lit, Of skyed eternity, in splendor borne On planetary wings of night and morn.
From An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three by Madison Julius Cawein
Frederic M. DuMond's "Sea Carvings" in the corner, and Nahl's decorative composition attract, each in its way, while in another corner a badly skyed portrait by Hinkle is scarcely given a chance.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
In these fancies Cornelia even had them come to New York, to see her picture in position; it was not on the line, of course, and yet it was not skyed.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
The picture was received, but was "skyed," that is, placed so high that nobody could well see it.
From Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Openers Phil Salt and Will Jacks combined for 39, but both struggled to unleash their trademark bombastic pinch-hitting and they fell in quick succession, skying catches off the bowling of Jayden Seales.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024
On the second pitch of his at-bat, he got one, skying the game-winning sacrifice fly plenty deep to center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Mexico pushed and pushed, skying one over the goal early in stoppage time among other attempts that caused sighs, and then at five minutes beyond 90 the whole thing collapsed with a rare Saudi counterattack.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
He had 105 yards on six catches, with two receiving touchdowns, by either gliding uncovered up the seams or skying over defenders.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
He barked a warning, and the sharp signal went around from hillock to hillock; and in half a minute all the big, babyish eyes were fixed upon the approach of the skying marauder.
From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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