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Sentence Examples Furious winds and snowstorms halted the salvage operation on Friday, but gave way to clearing skies yesterday morning. I followed the majestic flight of an eagle reveling in his freedom, soaring through the skies as if they were his to roam at will. This week's cloudier skies can be the start of a brief spell of light showers associated with the front approaching the Cape. The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries. As the blistering midday sun slowly arced across the powder-blue tropic skies, temperatures soared to stifling, triple-digit figures. A host of colourful balloons brighten the skies over Canberra during the week-long festival. The Boschian art direction here is impressive, with awe-inspiring architecture and angry, blackened skies. Black skies boiled and seethed above, clouds dark as pitch surging in an ominous spiral. When the skies clear, the awesome landscape communicates its majesty through an eerie silence. Endless azure blue skies filled our eyes whenever we stepped out with fluffy white clouds splattered here and there. It was a beautiful setting, with calm blue sea, azure skies, brown sailed dhows skimming past us, and it was also very hot. If you crave wide open spaces and big skies, then a place in the country would suit. It started a day of perfect beauty, light fresh winds and azure blue skies. Yesterday and today have been gorgeous, blue skies, small clouds and only mizzled this morning for a short while. The gray skies have lingered all day, but it has not rained or even mizzled. But they were denied seeing the sun rise at 4.58 as misty skies kept cover on the longest day of the year. Clear sky forcing is the direct backscatter of solar radiation in clear skies. He said southerly winds were expected to clear the skies overnight, although problems with smoke haze may continue. And in this ordinary day, the sun suddenly begins to brighten up the blue skies. With clear skies in some areas many thousands of people had an unobscured view of the rare moment. Show More Sentences Fighter jets scrambled into the clear blue skies above the American capital. Polarizers are most commonly used to darken blue skies in outdoor and scenic photographs by cutting through atmospheric haze. A familiar scrawl of handwriting covered the paper and on the cover side was a picture of Chicago, with its skyscrapers and hazy grey skies. The island looked disastrous, with billows of smoke rising to the skies, the houses on fire. No matter, both locations are stunningly beautiful, and the shots of wide seas, mountains and endless skies makes up for an awful load of waffle. Quite simply, the thing won't work without the base scanning the skies for missiles. For first world countries at least, contemporary warfare is waged primarily from the skies. After five days of sunshine at the beginning of the month, the sixth saw overcast skies and rain as the result of a trough of low pressure. And by golly, all weekend long and for nearly the entirety of the coming week, we'll be basking underneath blue skies and 68-degree weather. In stanzas twelve through fourteen, the omniscient narrator directs our eye to the movement of the skies. A team of ace pilots in convertible mecha take to the skies in order to save the world. The first fortification was the emplacement of anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns for defense of the skies. Those ultimate classic trenches with contrast piping at Chanel made everyone wish for overcast skies. It's dry and dusty with red dirt and big skies and broad acre paddocks of wheat and sheep. The year was ushered in by starlit skies, a bright silvery moon and biting cold. After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday. What was needed was a man of passion, with a love of trees and wild skies and the untameable surf. Yet, it costs nothing, and will cost nothing until our skies become so polluted that air worth breathing requires labour. Guests ate, drank and partied whilst being entertained by an array of fireworks in the skies above. The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing. Show More Sentences The ground quaked, and the skies shook, as two titans waged war upon each other. The sun was setting over the horizon, and the skies were stained with faint pinks and lavenders and blues. There was a bomb at the Capitol, we were told, yet it still stood, glinting under glorious skies. The skies cracked as a shaft of lightning, unleashed with the power of electrical fury, uncannily sped towards his still form on the ground. After coffee, the skies clear and the clouds respectfully lift to reveal the soft, peach-hued evening light shedding its fading rays on his face. It is the soundtrack to a summer, late nights, midnight skies, red wine, being carefree. The rain was actually driving horizontally with these incredibly dark skies and no visibility. He wasn't the first or last pioneer to come to grief in man's quest to conquer the skies. The HS748, the queen of the skies, has provided outstanding service to the Air Force and the nation in the past 37 years. There were sunny blue skies overhead as the hard-earned flag made its way up the school's flag pole. The water meadows on the outskirts of Minehead sparkle under sunny skies, full of the promise of lush marshy greens and hidden meadow orchids. Over a strip of the sea, next to the beach, over the ocean, under the blue, big skies, Nana lived. Gunboats patrolled the sea lanes and the skies were covered by fighter jets launched from an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic. Heavy security was in evidence with an estimated 10,000 police on the streets and helicopters and jet fighters patrolling the skies. The skies cleared on Sunday long enough to enable Salisbury Racecourse's 2004 season to finally go under starter's orders, writes Mike Turner. But in truth, how much consolation can webbed feet and waterproof hair be when the skies are continually grey and the pavements forever puddled? Last week we had our first serious tornado watch with afternoon skies gone dark enough to activate the street lamps. Nothing could be further from the reality of downtown Kiev with its dirty, slushy snow and its eternal grey skies. Chilly evenings and star-studded clear night skies offer a perfect backdrop for late night partying during the season. By its side, we toasted marshmallows over the campfire and gazed at the star-studded night skies. Show More Sentences If you are within sight of Edinburgh Castle this Friday night you would be well advised to look to the skies. Steel clattered, cries soared through the cerulean skies, rage unleashed, war came upon the raging countries. He exited to find that the skies had opened and that, the ragtop's top being down, the vehicle's floorboards were filled to the seat covers. The extremist mullahs who ruled Afghanistan believed the sight of skies filled with small, paper kites was somehow un-Islamic. The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again! The skies opened up and the cool September rain poured down in deluge upon the armory at Teaneck. The skies thundered and rained, and its color was a combination of what seemed to be every color known to man. He scrambled to lie flat on his stomach in the car while shards of debris rained from the skies. The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city. In the skies above Devon and Cornwall, 800 Naval Air Squadron's Commanding Officer Cdr Paul Stone took up his jump jet for almost the last time. He takes an age to lift it to the skies but eventually, wheech, up it goes, and we're all done and dusted. A thin crescent moon hung in starlit skies, giving off just enough light for him to see by. He has been spotted in the aerial battles and has caused a few of our kin to drop from the skies. As the engine revved, the traditional fireworks were unleashed and the skies exploded, kaleidoscopic. With no street lights or industry, it offers unparalleled views of starlit skies. The projector in the middle of the domed theatre clicks and whirs into action, showing a stunning display of the night skies. I love the wonderful flat landscape with its wide skies where so many flocks of birds fly freely. But what are ravers to do when they want to get out of the afterhours and under the skies? Fighters, transport planes, bombers and helicopters will fill the skies over RAF Fairford in the run-up to the air show this weekend. We watched for about twenty minutes trying to get a read on what the skies were doing. Show More Sentences I remember the sun shining through it but I'm sure this is a fanciful distortion, as Novembers in York are not known for their cloudless skies. This is a reward you often get, here on the edge of Exmoor, with wild skies making up for a day of wild weather. They joyously flitted from branch to branch, swooping down occasionally from the skies like wind-blown flowers falling off the trees. Clear skies, the high June sun, and an absence of wind chill offered napping conditions second to none. During that morning, however, something unusual was happening in the skies to the west and north-west of Ballyhaunis. Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house. Looking to the skies during an air show, the audience is always fascinated by the speed of jet aircraft, especially fighters. Generally, ownership of an area of ground includes the airspace immediately above that area up to the skies. Pilots are given credit for kills for knocking aircraft out of the skies, not necessarily killing the opposing pilot. French, German and US reconnaissance planes would be allowed to patrol the skies. A Garda helicopter combed the skies between north Roscommon and Sligo town after the thieves targeted Sligo and other towns. One of these years the Masters will make it through the week unhindered by dark clouds and rain and crackling thunder in the skies above Augusta. The skies were clear, the horizons were infinite, the landscape rolled and undulated for miles in every direction. Donna has dreams of working the friendly skies of New York and Paris and isn't ready to give her heart to anyone just yet. There has been an explosion in the number of astronomers scanning the skies for the telltale wobble of distant worlds. The white smoke rose in a small trail towards the stormy skies, far to the north of the two warriors. This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers. How hast thou stood with pleading eyes, Outstretching hands, and fervent cries, Unwearied wrestler with the skies! Of course, it helped that the older man spent most of his time praising Ryan to the skies. Everybody was praising young Michael to the skies, even though he missed a hat-trick in the first half! Show More Sentences This commission will be praised to the skies in the Human Rights Commission and laughed at in the families of New Zealand. The world is groaning to a halt, and yet the ants continue their relentless labour under sunny skies. It's easy this time of year to forget that the skies belong to birds other than buteos, accipiters, and their ilk. With clear skies and unlimited visibility, weather was not determined to be a factor. She hated them at times, and once she had praised their names to the skies for letting her live again. Misty evenings and star-studded night skies form the perfect backdrop for late night partying. He included a west-facing roof deck atop the bedroom wing for a prime view of Norway's famous late-night summer skies. Once you land the energy replenishes and you can take to the skies once more. This afternoon, many people in the office turned to look at the darkening grey skies and the rain spitting on the windows. However, skies cleared enough for observers at the launch pad to follow the rocket on its long trajectory. Blue skies speckled with tiny fleeces of cloud made it a glorious afternoon in Knock. To my eye, the gardens that looked best under leaden skies were those that used colour in other ways than planting. The brick-like tome devotes ten pages to our city, mostly praising it to the leaden skies. Aircraft do really travel through the skies, even if they are only seen as tiny specks from the ground. If the wind is forced over them on the leeward side of the mountain the air sinks, creating an area of high pressure and clear skies. It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies. The Northern Lights are a phenomenon that is seen in the skies on clear, dark nights in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Every light inside the ship burst on at full intensity, the bright glare cruelly lighting the snow and lowering skies. Dave Strachan is one of 22 forecasters at the Met Office in Stockport behind the predictions of blue skies and sizzling temperatures. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, southeast Alaska doesn't feel like a rainforest. Show More Sentences They fought on foreign shores, flew through enemy skies and risked their lives to liberate the world. Thunder and lightning create some of the most spectacular natural displays to strike the summer skies. Aim into the dark skies where Mars, when so close to earth, appears as a glowing red ruby. After an hour the fairways and greens were laced with perspiration as the two divisions toiled away under the heavy skies. They are replete with rocky crags, waterfalls, brooding skies and, in one case, a baleful moon straight out of a Caspar David Friedrich painting. The queen of the skies taxied onto the apron at Ringway through a welcoming arch of water canons blasted from a pair of airport fire engines. Try roller-coasting over Turnhouse Hill, Carnethy Hill and Scald Law, and let the wide open skies and the distant horizons exhilarate you. Then I took myself out to the garden and cut grass under increasingly heavy skies. The weather varied from blowing snow to clear skies and ensured all skiers were put through their paces. And that's without mentioning the wide skies, the winding roads and a blissful lack of mobile phone reception. More rotorcraft fly the skies above the big Brazilian metropolis than anywhere else in South America. They are a potent symbol of the jet age and a form of aerial artistry that decorates clear blue skies. The vapour trails of jet planes criss crossing the skies draws my eye away from my daily routine. Its luminous, yet soothing lights shined in the dark murky skies like a beacon of heaven. The ills of overcrowding are relieved by escape into a computer-generated heaven, of open skies and rolling fields. The first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway. A blue haze was cast over the world as the last moonbeam pierced the skies. The rainy season is over, with its dull, monotonous grey skies and unpleasant humid rain. Malevolent in appearance as it hovers menacingly in the spring skies, the Apache attack helicopter will soon be a familiar sight over Yorkshire. The main work was to photograph the Southern skies with various instruments and thereby to derive the positions, magnitudes and spectra of stars and other objects. Show More Sentences In every direction there were wide skies, gold grass hills and acacia trees. It was a high-tech attempt to smuggle in drugs and phones from the skies over a maximum-security facility. What if, heaven forbid, that plane had blown up in the skies over the Atlantic Ocean or above Michigan? We know that the skies are open season for all manner of drone traffic, from missile launchers to beer droppers. On the eve of the double-barreled canonization, the skies over Rome boomed with thunder and poured with rain. Africa has skipped a technological generation, bypassing the landlines that stripe our Western skies for the wireless way. Any worries stemming from everyday living are quickly obliterated under the immensity of the night skies, ablaze with stars as far as the eye can see. Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward. But just as the red spots on the map disappeared during the second half of the 20th century, so did waterborne travellers, as everyone took to the skies. The moon waxed unhurriedly across the starry cloudless skies, sharing what little light it had borrowed from the sun with the earth for the duration of the night. Imagine driving through the Scottish countryside, rolling through a vast landscape of green hills and cloudy skies. More importantly, these animals may also take advantage of heat saving postures that could potentially lower radiant heat losses to cold night skies. She closed her eyes and lifted her face up to the skies, feeling the gentle breeze caress her face as she slowly let go of everything on her mind. The whole of the previous week had been glorious weather and then, yesterday, the temperature had dropped right down and freezing rain had poured down from the skies. It was only the second rainout of the year, but Geoff Parker and Eddie Martin still arrived hoping for a clearing of the skies, but they had to settle for a morning of tea. Meanwhile, in the skies above an Aegean island, terrible danger grows. It is a sad and spectral landscape of thin, undulating, sandy soils, pine trees, reeds, broom, sedges and whispering dry grasses, under those endless, two-tone Russian skies. The dreary skies and raw weather suggested November, not mid-May. There are glimpses of smoky rooms, rolling seas and fiery skies, all conveyed with the desperation of a man who clearly realizes his escapism is also his undoing. Besides genetics, factors that keep most eastern old growth from soaring to the skies are thin, rocky soils and frequent hurricanes, windstorms, and ice storms. Show More Sentences For the body withering under the polluted skies of the City, with all the energies drained by the daily rigmarole of life, this is manna from heaven! For the rural skies, you can use compound telescopes and reflectors. Eventually they reached for the skies and achieved dizzying altitudes. Circling just a few hundred kilometres above the earth, remote sensing satellites can monitor all that is happening in the skies and on the ground below them. The jury is still out on whether condors will repopulate California skies. Meanwhile, a top-secret government agency that deals in the paranormal is hot on the tracks of the mysterious reptile sighted in the skies of California. Every night, they emerge from their roosts, taking to the skies on silent wings. I worked with an English fellow a few years back who, in the midst of a Brisbane summer, told me he found the repeatedly brilliant blue skies and fine weather a real drag. Antiterrorism initiatives and airline cutbacks are making it ever harder to be a road warrior, so business owners are increasingly taking to the skies in their own aircraft. Scattered across the rolling European countryside, they were once memorialized, raised to the skies in a Kansas City park, they were set in stone. There's a touch of romance about the sea, given that seafaring created the economies and history of the region before the skies took over as the main means of transport. I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake. The officials of Guizhou are not the only ones to take advantage of smog-riddled northern skies. Descriptions of armed soldiers and strange beasts galloping across the skies were not uncommon. This territory has lush green hills, azure blue skies and spectacular beaches where the loudest noise you will hear is the sound of a coconut dropping to soft white sands. When the sun comes out, it will open, allowing users to swim under blue skies, but when the weather turns, the telescopic structure will slide shut and heating will kick in. Preacher's Cave turned out to be a large natural chamber scooped out of a limestone cliff, with rifts in the roof acting as chimneys opening out onto powder blue skies. A Furness pilot is relishing the feel of terra firma after he took to the skies for 11 days in order to bring home a new aircraft for his skydiving school. It was particularly taxing, because with the clear skies, warm sun, and still, balmy weather we experienced for the entire journey, it became really quite hot in the car. I was also reminded that after Tony's last big birthday affair, the skies opened up and the normally dry dusty Todd ran a banker for a couple of days. Show More Sentences The skies may be grey and muted outside, but the high-ceilinged rooms are full of light, streaming through the barrel vault roof and the large windows. Fans also basked under unbroken blue skies at the Fairyhouse racecourse. Queues had formed early at one polling station in the Sydney beachside suburb of Clovelly, when polls opened under brilliant sunny skies in Australia's biggest city. Colour fidelity is also excellent, and there are beautiful examples of the reds of Roman uniforms contrasted against neutral backgrounds and blue skies. Our continent sits more or less astride the latitudes of the subtropical high pressure belt, an area of sinking, dry, stable air and usually clear skies. The weather was mild to hot and humid, with partly cloudy to cloudy skies. Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds. England's skies blacken as coal makes the industrial revolution possible. Three blind people and a number of sighted people took part in the fundraising jump, which involved training that morning before the crew took to the skies. Natural law has more power when nature proves itself unconquerable, when a black front moves across those wide plains skies followed by tornadoes. It does have a strong visual allure with its ominous grey skies, cobbled streets and wide stretches of mudflats that look more like an alien landscape than a British seashore. Set in the summer of 1978 amid a vivid Italian landscape of yellow cornfields and blue skies, this film looks at the dark underbelly of the world through a child's eyes. Ishan has spent the good part of half an hour praising Matt to the skies. We're going to write lots of articles praising him to the skies. From the beginning Brookmyre seems to have been praised to the skies. Gradually, the wind speed slacks, skies clear and temperatures moderate. It was surprisingly warm, considering the unfriendly grey skies. It has the same languorous sense of vast skies and unhurried pace. As the real artillery pieces unlimbered and began to hurl projectiles across the skies of Europe in August 1914, William Bateson was far away in Australia. Their responsibilities were lightened somewhat by the perfect conditions prevailing, with clear skies, slight seas and a moderate 10-knot southerly. Show More Sentences In Fontana, 80 miles to the east of LA, on the way to Vegas, a giant brown cloud will end its creeping spread and give way to clear empty clean skies. By the traditional Malayalam calendar, its Thulavarsham that is bucketing from the skies over Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu. Typhoon fighter jets will patrol the skies, and puma helicopters will be at the ready with airborne snipers. Varun, the mythical wind god obliged and a moderate 10-15 knot northerly, clear skies and a short chop greeted the fleets at the Royal Cliff start line. It will be used by astronomy club members and novice stargazers who will benefit from the forest's dark skies, unhindered by polluting street lights. A pioneering telescope that helped 18th century stargazers map the skies has returned to the East Yorkshire country home where it remained for two centuries. Week after week there were clear skies by day and starry skies at night. During the harmattan, a cool, dusty wind from the Sahara grays the skies. Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December. Clear skies and a bridge across bright water seem like good omens. In 1986, when the Commonwealth Games were last hosted in Britain, Edinburgh endured a fortnight of stormy skies and an even bleaker financial legacy. It was a sweltering 140 degrees on the flight deck as we taxied our Prowler to the catapult for a late July launch into the skies of the Arabian Gulf. Yet kagouls and brollies would have been wiser buys as Kuala Lumpur's skies dumped more rain in one morning than Tyneside has seen in a month. Together with more than 50 Poles fighting in British squadrons, about 145 Polish pilots defended British skies. Had the skies cleared and the track dried, the decision would have worked against Moss. In spring, the brilliant Little Green Bee-eater graces the skies and perches on phone and electricity wires. Destroying RAF Fighter Command would allow the Germans to gain control of the skies over the invasion area. Low barometric pressure generally means cloudy skies and storms, while high pressure means clear skies. I have always thought Oregon's music particularly suited to grey skies, silhouettes of leaveless trees and a good thick carpet of soggy leaves. After hours the monotony was broken, a lone lammergeyer circled the clear blue skies. Show More Sentences At present, the UAE has air services deals with 150 nations, out of which 115 are open skies agreements or completely laissez-faire deals. For centuries, cultures in desert climates played a musical instrument called a rainstick to summon water from the skies. As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm. O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies. The baseball game went into a rain delay for about an hour before the skies cleared and play resumed. The skies above the London area are crammed full of aircraft, all flying in holding patterns, waiting to approach the airports. His impastations, which even reach the skies, spoiled more than one of his paintings. As a result, prevailing overcast skies limited Allied air support, and no serious damage would be done to the beach defences on Omaha and Juno. Control of the skies was still lacking, and coordination among three branches of the armed forces was out of the question. During World War II, much of the Battle of Britain was fought in the skies over the county. In 1940, the RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe in a struggle for control of the skies in the Battle of Britain. Blue skies, mild temperatures and easily carved corn snow all make spring a great time to be on the slopes. The NWS predicts partly cloudy skies with high temperatures in the 60s across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. But the luxurious eight-seater aircraft was spotted struggling in the skies toward the Mournes near an area known as Leitrim Lodge. With the Luftwaffe largely cleared from the skies, Allied fighters increasingly served as attack aircraft. Day one of this much-hyped Investec series brought 14 wickets, under unshifting grey skies. Had World War II lasted longer, we might have seen swarms of Mixmasters in hostile skies. That's because a British engineer, Giles Cardozo, has built a roadster that can also take to the skies. Grey skies, breezy conditions, higher humidity and cooler temperatures prevail. Show More Sentences The weather has since improved and sunny skies and calm wind conditions were helping the rescue efforts. But it was the lesser known pastime of microlight flying which I got a chance to try out in the skies above Gwynedd last week. Early-stage plans for a PS100m cablecar network above the skies of Cardiff and out over Cardiff Bay to Penarth are very much welcomed. However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany. Great-grandad Ron has taken to the skies again in a microlight with a co-pilot. As for the gay-friendly skies, Southwest Airlines is practically painting its planes' tail fins pink. It became the symbol of the mass transportation age, plying the domestic skies of Japan for 27 years. And on getting to the VLT he fulfilled his ambition to see the vast telescopes beneath the awesome night skies of remote Chile. A RARELY seen bird of prey was spotted in the skies over Coventry today by a keen bird watcher. Blue skies are on their way so celebrate with Asda's Castaway homeware range of cushions, throws and bedding in delicate colours such as Aegean green and aqua blue. He is believed to have been regarded as the god of the daylit skies. The Verdun lesson learnt, the Allies' tactical aim became the achievement of air superiority and until September, German aircraft were swept from the skies over the Somme. Steve takes to the skies in a motor-powered paraglider to take his unique photos, which feature in a new exhibit at Clwyd Theatr Cymru's Oriel Gallery. The resulting diminished air quality could lead to smoggier skies and adversely affect those suffering from lung and heart conditions such as asthma and chronic bronchitis. More than 15,000 people are believed to have attended the event yesterday, where Peter Davies wowed crowds after taking to the skies in his gyrocopter. The main characters, swept by tumults of the earth, the skies and the hearts, are strange and often possessed of unheard of violence and deprivations. The summit of Mauna Kea is considered the ideal place to mount an astronomical observatory, for above the clouds there is only the stars and the skies are ideally transparent. Have you taken pictures of the Leonids over the Midlands skies? In 1921, Italian aerial warfare theorist Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, a book positing that future wars would be decided in the skies. The castle did not disappoint the next morning either, sitting serenely under blue skies and baking sunshine, which glinted on the smooth waters of the River Vltava. Show More Sentences Huge flying reptiles, like these pteranodons flew through the skies. No evidence has surfaced that the designee system is responsible for the battery problem that has prompted regulators to temporarily ban the plane from the skies. On daily to weekly timescales, high pressure areas tend to bring clear skies and low surface winds, whereas low pressure areas tend to be windier and cloudier. A walk round in early March, with some late-lying snow and an icy mist which blew away to pure blue skies was probably my favourite but it's too close to call. True, the land was sodden from recent heavy rain, but the combination of blue skies, green grass and trees at the peak of their autumnal goldenness was wonderful. Hundreds of millions of European starlings now flock in the winter, almost darkening the skies in some areas, leaving trouble and messes in their wakes. Tibet offers snow-capped mountains, pure blue skies and lakes, and other scenic destinations that have long proved to be popular with travellers and tourists. It was cold beyond knowing, and the skies were too often downcast and muttersome, and it was hard to find the purchase to grow things upon the rocks. I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else. As soon as they see me scurrying around picking up snorkels and flippers they know the Big Wet is on its way. The skies will open and Hughie will send it down. It is worth mentioning that the Sultanate is considered among the countries that concerns to monitor air pollutants concentration in its skies via monitoring stations. Aided by a pilot, Putin clambered into a powered hang-glider and took to the skies, teaching the birds to follow his lead using scent and other incentives. The skies will be filled with thousands of fish-shaped windsocks made by local schoolchildren, alongside a giant 20ft inflatable squid and a shark's head, to name but a few. He pays special attention to the many weird and wonderful military projects that littered the wastebaskets of generations of scientists and surround us in the skies. The dull grey skies hint at more snow, and the zero chill approaches. Asterisms are the beauties of the starry skies, just search them out. The Luftwaffe and RAF clashed in the skies over the French city. If you're like most of us, you relish the opportunity to be under those sunny skies on your sundeck and accordingly it's an important component of your home. Weather permitting a gyrocopter will capture the project from the skies. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Show More Sentences In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies. Wildlife charity the RSPB said the return of the red kite to our skies and the bittern to our reedbeds were the conservation high points of the Noughties. Periodic squalls occur and sometimes tropical cyclones bring overcast skies and rains to the southwest, northeast, and eastern parts of the island. The Coalsack Nebula is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way. Gently rolling hills speckled with olive trees and cork oaks stretched out far and wide under clear blue skies and the only streams in view contained water. After about 70 airports were wiped off from one of the world's leading satellite navigation systems, the air traffic safety in South African skies has been settled. Examples from Classical Literature We should also note the fact that the dewfall is a concomitant of cloudless skies. As I came near to dubhe, I scanned the surrounding skies and was surprised to find that the whole semblance of my dipper was lost. Is this the same Viola who bloomed fairer than their own Idalia under the skies of Greece? People recounted the scenes he had delineated and lauded the artist to the skies. But the skies have cleared, the wind has gone, and the weather is crystal-clear again. An occasional flash of lightning lit up the trees and the winding road, and the cannonry of the skies rolled and echoed overhead. The baby blue eyes deepened to the deep violet-blue of overhead skies in June. Then the skies were cloven, and the tree Ygdrassil was shaken in all its roots. Her fair crown is one of amaranth, which groweth not on earth, but in the skies. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,The queen of the world and the child of the skies. For the present he swept the skies leisurely, feasting on the infinite wonders which no consuetude could render commonplace. Behind the atomics were the Kruchek drivers, twin brawny giants chained to the treadmill they pushed through the skies. The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere. Already the red banners of the sunset were flaunted in the high western skies. Find more words! 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