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Standing barefoot outside his home at 8th Street and Balboa Boulevard, holding a cup of coffee, Ross Stewart, 79, stared at the gray sky and at the berms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

The high-flying wing’s growth this offseason caught the attention of his teammates, who are eager to throw him lobs for dunks and see him sky for rebounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

He said they went outside to snap pictures of the sky and the damage from the storm.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Operating with a telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, ZTF repeatedly photographs large sections of the night sky.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

At last, when the sun was low in the sky, a prisoner crew arrived with a great vat of some thick steamy substance that we gobbled ravenously.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

In the Pacific tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta, the skies were cloudy on Saturday morning but the sea was still relatively calm.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

But any comparison of the challenge of defending Britain's skies with Israel's, about 10% the size of the UK, is naive.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The cloudless skies made every pop-up an adventure and the warm, dense air reduced drag, allowing batted balls to travel farther.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But, on a clear night in Cardiff, the evening's skies ended up filled only with the sound of the national anthem serenading a re-energised national side's efforts.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

It is similar to another remark made to me once by Georges Laforgue, on an occasion when I had been extolling Julian to the skies.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He claimed that Paltrow skied out of control and slammed into him, causing four broken ribs and permanent brain damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Oh, and never ski with anyone who skied down Everest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Regardless of Smith, who was also dropped on two, adding crucial extra runs until he skied Mahmud, this was a fine effort by Bangladesh after Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Arsenal produced a battling display but lacked attacking quality as PSG dominated with 75% possession and eventually won on penalties as centre-back Gabriel skied his penalty in the shootout.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

He broke his wrists again just as the ball came in and threw a roundhouse swing that skied the ball and then curved it foul into the third-base trees.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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

From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

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 William Dean Howells

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