sky
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"It's like the sky fell in and crushed me", she says of being separated from her daughter.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
We can admire the blue sky before the clouds cover the sun.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
As a result, court astronomers carefully documented changes in the sky.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
With drones dominating the sky, Ukraine and Russia are going head-to-head underground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 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
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Hot-air ballooning in Cappadocia is a thriving industry that sees dozens of balloons take to the skies on clear mornings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Feel how an airplane feels as it hurtles through windy skies at top speed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
While we look to the skies, however, most of the world's communications are travelling via undersea cables - about 99% in fact.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
European and other carriers were banned from Russian and Belarusian skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Nathan looked at the spiny canopy of the tall, thin pine trees that grew toward the cloud-patched skies.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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And that proved the decisive moment as Helm dismissed Ajaz Patel and Tom Scriven skied Naavya Sharma straight up, with captain Ben Geddes taking the winning catch.
From BBC ● Sep. 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
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
The next inning, Max Muncy skied a solo homer to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Haukelid skied back across the border and rejoined the resistance.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
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
Rathnayake charged him a ball later and was caught skying a hideous swipe.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
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
The kick-off is a positive luxury under such circumstances; Stansfield needn’t be afraid of skying the ball now, and he isn’t.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
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