skies
Example Sentences
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The sleek, black machines aren’t destined for battlefields in Ukraine or skies above the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
It suggests Iran is still able to defend its skies, even if at a limited capacity.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Still, hundreds of families sat out under mild, cloudy skies, picnicking amid sweeping views of the snow-capped Alborz mountains -- a postcard scene at odds with a city under regular attack.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
The stories are set predominately in a middle America of big skies and lonely highways—terrain Thompson calls “the concrete pasture.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The sunny spring skies, the flowers in the lamppost boxes, did not at all reflect the city’s mood.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
