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Around 700 firefighters have been battling the flames on land, while several firefighting planes have been dumping water from the sky since the blaze erupted around midday on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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

Jemma McCarron, who lives in Worcestershire, said: "If the prices are sky high because of things totally beyond your control, there's nothing you can do about that."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The sky above the open-air stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., was noticeably clearer Friday and could improve even more with the heavy rains forecast for Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

It may be a quick turnaround from Wednesday's quarter-finals but a mid-summer Finals Day looks set for blue skies and some thrilling match-ups.

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

The journey was ready to begin at 2:00 P.M. on October 30 under heavy gray skies.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

On a cool but sunny start to the day, she skied the course at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in 1:04.25 — best of the four Americans but 1.02 seconds off Brignone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

Australia needed 34 runs off the final two overs, but when Renshaw was caught for 65 after he skied the superb Muzarabani with eight balls remaining the game was effectively up.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Rolf Sorlie skied back into the mountains and disappeared.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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 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

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

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

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

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

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)