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By contrast, the sky and the air represent wonder and possibility, like what he felt when he first heard Laurie Anderson’s computerized psychedelic anthem, “O Superman,” in 1982.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

It was a Saturday, and the sky above the lake was shockingly clear.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

It was the largest radio telescope in the world, and unlike others at the time, it could be steered to track objects across the sky.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Even tens of kilometres away from the blaze ravaging the Madrid countryside, the sky remained hazy with smoke Saturday morning before the winds cleared the air.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

One night I tossed for an hour while dogfights raged overhead, streaking my patch of sky with fire.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The South Downs National Park is considered one of the best places in the region for glow worms because it contains some of the country's darkest skies.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Over the years, many weird and wonderfully shaped balloons have graced the skies - some of which have made regular appearances at balloon festivals in the UK and around the world.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

"We do not want to find ourselves in a situation where such a political decision could be taken for the skies above Paris."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

It gives the story some tension, and shows that our heroine isn’t perfect — she’s just doing her best under desert skies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Nansi swings his eyes upward, studying the sparkling stars like there are messages written in the unearthly skies.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Atkinson eventually skied Jamieson, leaving Nathan Smith to take the last three for 6-70 - the third-best figures by a New Zealander in a Test at Lord's.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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

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

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

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

The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

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 Neuhaus, Eugen

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

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

Harry Brook, just when he looked like he had done it, skying one to send Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins on a collision course, the ball eventually landing safely with the Australian captain.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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

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 Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)