sky
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Imagine a Saturday night “spectacular,” under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing as fireworks explode in the night sky — for $10?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
As the late British economist John Maynard Keynes reminded us, trees do not grow to the sky.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Some parts of the world had a chance to see a rare 'Blood Moon', when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in the night sky.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Over more than 30 years, Hubble has observed roughly 0.1% of the night sky.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The film begins, a camera moving from the sky through the trees.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Any abnormal appearance in the skies, he observes, is “profoundly disorienting.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Clear skies meant an uninterrupted view for Martin B in Kent.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
On Tuesday, under clear skies, roofs ripped apart by the storm had already been covered with blue and green plastic tarpaulins, an AFP journalist saw.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Eighty years later, Eisenhower owned the skies over Europe and leveraged the power of a vast coalition to conquer Hitler’s Fortress Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
There was a flash of lightning from the clear skies, followed by the dull boom of thunder as the hammer left Thor’s hand.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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One sweep too many at Usman resulted in a skied top-edge.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Horning, an 82-year-old real estate mogul who skied in jeans, buys his shirts at Costco and cuts his own hair, has his own name for what Telluride has become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 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
I had never skied before in my life.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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In the Salon that year six thousand pictures were offered, and only two thousand accepted, and many of these were "skyed."
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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
The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
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
Comically, Broad got away with skying Scott Kuggeleijn from his second ball - Kuggeleijn and wicketkeeper Blundell watched as the ball dropped between them - leaving England 79-2, leading by 98.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
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
Redaelli was an offensive lynchpin beyond her years in Palisades’ 25-17, 25-18, 5-25, 27-25, 15-12 rivalry win over Venice on Thursday night, raining shots from all angles, skying from the back for the match-clinching kill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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