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sky

[skahy] / skaɪ /


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Like a popcorn movie, the evening ended happily with a drone show in the night sky narrated by Winfrey and Jackson, and featuring images from the museum’s collection including the Cave of Altamira, N.C.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The Venetian Resort, at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, is already a surreal place—the interior includes an indoor St. Mark’s Square with chlorine-blue canals, old-timey lampposts, and a painted blue sky.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

After Archer's first over went for 15, Baker had Lahiru Udara sky to wicketkeeper Buttler.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

In early September 2026, Anak Krakatau entered a prolonged explosive phase that lasted for more than 24 hours, sending large amounts of gas and ash into the sky.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

I rose, surprised at how dark the sky had become, but time passed differently here.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

But that dynamic—coupled with where the surge in traffic has been going—is part of what is spurring finger-pointing toward the skies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

They were a dynamic duo, often taking to the skies to document some of the biggest breaking news stories across Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

I can still remember how blue the skies in California seemed during that brief interlude.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

Together, the three of them had climbed the world's highest peaks, under crisp mountain skies and in treacherous snowstorms.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The dark skies become covered with fur as the mmoatia all take flight and rain down on us.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Only once Germany’s Jonathan Tah skied his shot and Paraguay’s Jose Canale powered one past Manuel Neuer did the upset officially enter the history books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

With 98 runs needed from 37 balls, Jahzara Claxton skied a top edge and England's wicketkeeper Jones called for the catch.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Arsenal produced a battling display but lacked attacking quality as PSG dominated with 75% possession and eventually won on penalties as centre-back Gabriel skied his penalty in the shootout.

From BBC May 30, 2026

The next inning, Max Muncy skied a solo homer to right.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

He saw as many hockey games as he could, was an active tennis player, skied, swam, and belonged to a Ping-Pong club in Manhattan.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Sure enough there were four cheetahs skying away and playing together about 400 yards off; they came closer and closer, when they stopped about 100 yards off, looking about as if they suspected danger.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale




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