SKY in a Sentence

Learn SKY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
331 example sentences for SKY, such as:
1. We slept under the open sky.
2. The western sky was glowing pink.
3. A white cloud passed over the sky.
4. His visit came out of a clear sky.
5. The sun's far down the sky, Lorena.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SKY
sky
 n.  the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
 v.  throw or toss with a light motion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  The cold was less sharp than earlier in the day and a thick fleecy sky threatened snow for the morrow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  Under the open sky the light was still clear, with a reflection of cold red on the eastern hills.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  "I guess this'll be their last coast for a day or two," Ethan said, looking up at the mild sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  The sky, swollen with the clouds that announce a thaw, hung as low as before a summer storm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  The sun's far down the sky, Lorena.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  The street with its over-arching trees was softly, deeply black under a dim star-studded sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  The air was oppressive even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky.
2  Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above.
3  The flame above the oil well flared into the dark sky.
4  The sun appears to move in an arc across the sky.
5  Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
6  A dark shape stood silhouetted against the bright morning sky.
7  The hills stood stark against the winter sky.
8  The wintry sun was already low in the sky.
9  Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
10  The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
11  We slept under the open sky.
12  His visit came out of a clear sky.
13  If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
14  The western sky was glowing pink.
15  A white cloud passed over the sky.