sky
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October's full Moon, nicknamed the Hunter's Moon, is set to light up the night sky this weekend.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, Alpine Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly secured a sprawling four-bedroom, four-bathroom sky residence measuring 3,712 square feet, with a listing price of $4.9 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Here in Central Kalimantan, especially in Palangkaraya, the sky has turned yellow and hazy," says Riduan, head of the Palangkaraya Health Office.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Despite the Army’s earlier protestations, the sky didn’t fall when the court was allowed to get involved.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Finally, just before dawn, when the sky is still dark, someone calls for the prisoners to make their way to the main building.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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For the rest of the UK prospects are better, especially early in the night with clearer skies, before cloud tends to spread in from the south-west later.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
European and other carriers were banned from Russian and Belarusian skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Expect cloudy skies on Tuesday with rain developing again in England, Wales and Scotland.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Her director, who seems preoccupied with grass and trees and skies at the expense of people, has made a film almost completely bereft of wit, which is like a Star Wars movie without laser guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
He claimed he did, so finally we were on our way to the big skies of the Dakotas and to the Red River valley, the American Nile.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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One sweep too many at Usman resulted in a skied top-edge.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Ravindra needlessly skied Atkinson and Nicholls edged Archer, keeping the home side in the contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The next inning, Max Muncy skied a solo homer to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Rolf Sorlie skied back into the mountains and disappeared.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
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
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
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
Borick, meanwhile, is anywhere and everywhere at all times — diving on the ground for a dig, skying for a kill, delivering a picturesque set or dropping in an ace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Burgess began his campaign against de Freece by skying his first ball over cover’s head to the boundary.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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