How to Use take to the sky/skies in a Sentence

take to the sky/skies

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  • For those dreaming to take to the sky and soar with the clouds, here's your chance.
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024
  • Don a Hogwarts robe and take to the skies above The Lands Between.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The Blue Angels are scheduled to take to the skies at 3:35pm each day.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 31 July 2024
  • But they are not expected to take to the skies in large numbers for years.
    Niraj Chokshi Tony Cenicola, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The show revolves around young medics and pilots who take to the skies in air ambulances.
    Katie Reul, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The aircraft were permitted to again take to the skies in 2021, following a two-year ban.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • On Tern, tens of thousands of seabird chicks sat less than a foot apart from each other on the ground, just waiting to lose their down and take to the skies.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Today's the day for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to take to the skies.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
  • Instead, most migrating birds take to the sky at night to make their southern push.
    Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Millions of Americans are gearing up to hit the highway and take to the skies ahead of the holidays.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As part of his preparation for school exams, Piccard would set aside his reading and take to the sky.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The race to take to the skies – vertically and electrically – is tight.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
  • How will air traffic control adapt to a world with rockets blasting off as often as planes take to the skies?
    Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Masses of kites take to the skies in Long Beach, Washington, every summer.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2024
  • Millions of Americans plan to be like Santa and his reindeer and take to the skies in late December.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The Ducks, meanwhile, take to the skies themselves for a six-game road trip to the Southeast, beginning with a Tuesday visit to Nashville.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The 5-seat aircraft could take to the skies as early as next year, company officials said.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • Larger-capacity electric planes are also in the pipeline and could take to the skies within the next decade.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Data from Hopper, the online travel booking platform, shows that Sundays and the fall are the least popular days for kids to take to the skies.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Or, take to the sky for some paragliding, which is also popular at this location.
    Adeline Duff, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Millions are preparing to hit the road and take to the skies for Thanksgiving, but stormy weather is threatening to put a damper on travel plans.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Salt Lake City International Airport is on pace to see a record number of passengers take to the skies this year.
    Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Thousands of Americans are getting ready to take to the skies for the cold weather holidays, and invariably some of their flights will be canceled.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Weather permitting, the skywriter will take to the skies, spelling out the confirmation code in smoke.
    Lillian Stone, Jon Plester, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Passenger counts are rebounding as travelers take to the skies again.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 9 June 2022
  • Travelers hoping to take to the skies for the holiday season should consider booking their trip next month for the cheapest flight.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2024
  • During spring and fall migrations, birds take to the sky in such quantity that radar stations can tally the number of animals in flight.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Deaths-by-window peak during migration season, when billions of birds take to the skies at night with their sights set on a destination far away.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Ticket prices peaked in May, according to Hopper, reflecting a surge in demand for travel as more Americans felt ready to take to the skies again.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Airport terminals that looked abandoned during the height of the pandemic were filling up again this summer with travelers itching to take to the skies again.
    Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021

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