Word Finder - sky

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The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.

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That year, a meteor fell from the sky.

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The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.

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I lay back under a warm Texas sky.

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Heaven.

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This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.

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(theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.

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In an art gallery, the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen.

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A cloud.

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To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.

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To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin.

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To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.

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To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.

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A vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.

The moon is full, the sky full of stars.

The sky was dark, the stars plentiful and bright.

Jule lifted his head to the night sky and closed his eyes.

The sky was dark and peaceful.

As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still.

The distant sky showed signs of growing lighter.

Some things never changed, like the blue sky, the sun orb, the grass and oceans.

The flutter of a black trench coat blended with the dark sky as Gabriel twisted them in midair, so he'd hit back first, with her protected in his arms.

It was nighttime on this side of the world, and the sky was clear.

The next eruption, and the one after it, gave insufficient light to help, but then a multiple display hung in the sky like a full moon, giving time for his eyes to search left and right.

A rope fell out of the sky, striking Dean on the shoulder.

Shouldn't you be floating in the sky somewhere? she asked skeptically.

The sky began to dim, and she played with the magic, adrenaline speeding the power's flow through her.

At the entrance to the Arbat Square an immense expanse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes.

Verdant forests stretched to the steely sky, a swath of green, brown, and grey.

How was it I did not see that lofty sky before?

Dusty glanced up at the sky, where the clouds had gone from black to slate.

One source of energy was darker than a stormy sky while another was as bright as the sun.

She rubbed her head and glared at him, watching as he followed his father in the direction where both sky and sea darkened into blackness.

How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep!

He never expected to see the blue sky again or the trees around the fortress, let alone sip sweet tea and nibble on berry scones.

He looked up at the sky.

She walked slowly, taking in everything from the patches of blue sky visible through the trees to the spring flowers sprinkling the forest floor.

The air was crisp and fresh, the night sky clear.

She saw his large frame against the night sky outside the small cave, human one moment, then decidedly not the next.

It was near dusk, with the sky growing dark in the distance.

They have green grass, oceans, and blue sky just like us.

Her words fell as hard as he had from the sky.

I knew the sky was black, because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the atmosphere.

It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.

From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostovs' with Natasha's grateful look fresh in his mind, had gazed at the comet that seemed to be fixed in the sky and felt that something new was appearing on his own horizon--from that day the problem of the vanity and uselessness of all earthly things, that had incessantly tormented him, no longer presented itself.

Sometimes it looked as if the clouds were passing, and a clear black sky appeared.

In the morning she rolled out of her bed before the sun could stain the sky.

The still air became more charged the closer they got to the center of the storm, the sky darker.

The soulless, ancient intelligence there was as fathomless as the night sky.

It was bedtime on her side of the world, but dawn was breaking the sky outside her windows.

The demons had been able to enter her realm when the sky broke apart.

Her gaze went to the sky, where the demon bird had appeared in her dream.

The dream sky wasn't even real, and he missed it already.

The sky appears as a shining lake; mountains or palms may be similarly reflected, but it is to be noted that the images are inverted (see fig.).

It has already been shown that such creatures, thunder-birds, snakes, dragons, and what not, people the sky in the imagination of Zulus, Red Men, Chinese, Peruvians, and all the races who believe that beasts hunt the sun and moon and cause eclipses.'

But in Homer he has long ceased to be merely the sky conceived of as a person; he is the 1 Sacred Books of the East, xii.

In spring cold, wetting mists occasionally envelop the land for entire days, while in summer the sky is often perfectly clear for weeks together, At all seasons of the year sudden changes of temperature, to the extent of from 30 to 500 F., are not infrequent.

Last song sang of a ' slowly fading sky growing emerald ' .

But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.

I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it.

Pierre glanced up at the sky and the twinkling stars in its faraway depths.

Lisa pulled a curtain back to examine the sky.

She rubbed her legs and stared up at the sky.

Quinn slapped me on the back as he looked up at the darkening sky.