sky
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As part of that event, a helicopter was brought in to demonstrate close-up some of the methods used to dowse fires from the sky.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Just as they did in Qatar—and more recently in Atlanta and Dallas and Kansas City—supporters in sky blue and white swarmed the stadium, outnumbering Spain fans by at least three-to-one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Last October, a roaring blast and fire at Chevron’s El Segundo plant stayed within the refinery footprint but the noise shook the neighborhood and turned the sky sunset-orange, then smoky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The sky was turning dark, and the Legendary house band had come on.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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She described the large seascape in its unforgettable blues, the watercolors of trees, the misty quality of the skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Saturday night will see largely clear skies for the first half of the night with fog forming across northern and eastern Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
TORONTO—Hundreds of out-of-control wildfires are burning in Canada, shrouding skies there and the U.S. in an eerie yellow-gray haze and forcing the evacuation of dozens of communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Come Sunday night, there will be more of the same with low cloud across Scotland and Northern Ireland and clear skies further south.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In 1940—the year Joey first notices sores and bumps, known as “lesions,” on her face—the land, water, and skies around Manila are quiet.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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There was a comedy moment when Arshdeep Singh skied Tongue for what seemed a simple catch, only for the ball to by left to each other by Curran and Buttler.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The next inning, Max Muncy skied a solo homer to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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
Rolf Sorlie skied back into the mountains and disappeared.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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 Cawein, Madison Julius
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 Howells, William Dean
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 Bolton, Sarah Knowles
The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
Rathnayake charged him a ball later and was caught skying a hideous swipe.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
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
I have done a good deal of skying, for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.
From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Binyon, Cicely Margaret Powell
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