How to Use sky in a Sentence

sky

1 of 2 noun

• The sun was high in the sky.
• There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
• Dark clouds moved quickly across the sky.
• Hailstones suddenly fell out of the sky.
• The forecast is for sunny skies tomorrow.
• This Charles is weepy and thoughtful and howls to the skies in grief.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• What are those web-like clumps falling from the sky around the Bay Area?
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Yet for some four hours, the world held its breath as weapons whizzed through the night sky.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• In 2019 left his castle in the sky to open on his own place.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The sky’s the limit with Richardson, who turns 21 on May 22.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
• Oh, also, one night all the stars in the sky start blinking on and off.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The day began with rain, but the sky had cleared by the time the lines started forming.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Chile site will focus on broader areas and 60% of the sky.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• As a result, the two objects appear to be the same size in our sky.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• In the 1200s, the Maya made records of Venus’s position in the sky on paper made from fig-tree fiber.
  — Kate Larue, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• In the evening, light up the campfire for smores-making, or keep it dark to enjoy the night sky.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Quadrantids will streak through the sky at a speed of about 25 miles per second.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Devil Comet is located south and to the left of Jupiter, which is pretty low in the sky.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• At night, light comes from stars hole-punching dark skies.
  — Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The drones are lit and can be programmed to create images, shapes and words against a night sky.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• The militarization of space poses a threat not just to troops on the ground or in the skies.
  — Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• With spring fully sprung, winter woes have melted away and the sun stays in the sky longer and longer each day.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
• The sky was a sort of half-dawn gray, and the forecast was for the snow to continue until 6 p.m. and maybe beyond.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Warplanes swarmed low in the sky, seeming to hover one above the other.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• The days are shorter, the skies are drearier, and winter looms ahead.
  — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2023
• His prior post was a video from his hotel room of the sun shining high in the sky on the first day with his new knee.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Could an Elephant Bird Fly? Due to its enormous size, the elephant bird couldn’t soar through the skies.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• Often, the answer was just to walk around the streets of Anchorage until the darkness bled out of the sky.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• The airplane was three miles into the sky and still climbing when passengers heard the boom and felt the blast of icy wind.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• The houses that remain tower above the land, having been raised on to stilts 10 feet — even 25 feet — into the sky.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024

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sky

2 of 2 verb

• Voisin said, even though the idea of flying over a 50-foot gap is enough to send most people’s heart rates sky high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Check him out in the first highlight of this next video, skying for a one-handed putback dunk.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2017
• With two outs, Padres reliever Phil Maton got Bregman to sky a ball about 30 feet in front of the plate to the first base side.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Mason also had the highest hit pop-out of the day, skying the ball to short center field.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 16 June 2018
• With rental prices sky high, car sharing companies get a boost.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2021
• At the same time, Petrino might elect to have his kicker keep the ball away from Green and sky the ball to a player one level in front of the speedy tailback.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2022
• But be warned, chip shortages have already seen scalpers send console prices sky high.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
• His identity used to be one of a run and dunk man; someone who would use their supreme athleticism to sky above the rim and throw one down.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Runners advanced to second and third base before Mize induced a weak grounder from Davis and got Semien to sky out to left field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2021
• On two occasions Sterling got in free behind the back line only to sky his efforts over the bar.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Plus, four-man Jeff Green is a 17-year veteran can still can sky over defenders for dunks and knock down stop-up 3s.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
• Sky high hepatitis C drug costs have led states to restrict coverage of drugs to treat it.
  — Jayne O'Donnell and Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• When Sims is right, his threat as a roll man and ability to sky for rebounds is a tremendous asset for a Texas team light on bigs.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• Like the effect that resellers/scalpers can have on the price of concert tickets, gobbling them all up and then driving the prices sky high, whiskey has the same problem.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• And with stress levels sky high, many people lost their main go-to coping skills as gyms were closed and coffee with friends was no longer an option.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2020
• And France, which had gone ahead of England in the 78th minute, needed the unmissable Harry Kane to sky his second penalty to avoid extra time.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• That could send already sky high heating bills up even more, due mainly to spiking fuel prices.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
• Messi shouldered the blame for his team's failure to beat Iceland after skying a penalty kick that would have won the match and secured a top slot for the team.
  — Julia Poe, SI.com, 30 June 2018
• In the brown-and-white shingled main house there’s a series of suites, each with a living room, bedroom, working fireplace, and sky high cathedral windows.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2021
• From the Archives: Elon Musk’s comments on assets like bitcoin and dogecoin have helped send prices sky high – and crashing down – during the first half of 2021.
  — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• The results come as investors weigh the likely success of the Fox deal, which if completed would offer a 10 percent yield to Sky’s current share price.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• With a grade-point average above 4.0, and the size and leaping ability to sky high above any net, Kelly is set to be a player to watch in his junior season for the Cubs.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The background sky around the Pillars, which also sports copious dust (albeit less of it), takes on a particularly clear and crisp look in the James Webb shot.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• Kalu used his athletic ability to sky over players for rebounds and hustled for loose balls.
  — Kyle J. Andrews, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• The big gains in the stocks of electric vehicle makers have pushed their market values sky high, alarming some analysts.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 July 2020
• The newsroom was an expansive space, with tiny horizontal windows near the ceiling; only the tallest could see anything but sky through them.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2020
• Some of Jacobs’ dunks — which are available at youtube.com — show him skying high and slamming in acrobatic fashion.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2017
• And in the meantime, his price tag will continue to sky rocket, especially given the current market.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• But with meat shortages raising prices sky high, running a sandwich shop during the coronavirus crisis just didn’t pencil out.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2020
• The aurora can sometimes be obscured to sky watchers on the ground by clouds, but astronauts on the International Space Station can have a front-row seat to aurora activity from above.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024