6 sentences with 'skies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word skies and other words derived from it.
• « The resulting months of combat in the skies became known as the Battle of Britain. It was the "greatest" series of air battles ever fought, lasting from July to September 1940, with thousands of aircraft fighting in the skies day and night. »
• « -Have you ever woken up at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning? I can assure you that the morning skies in July are so wonderfully pink, it's as if the whole sky is flushed. And on August nights the stars look like icebergs floating on a dark blue ocean, and you don't experience the true delight of swimming until you dive into the water on a 46°C. day! »
• « The weather forecast called for a mild night and clear skies the next day. It turned out to be just the opposite: soon the sky became overcast and lightning foreshadowed a storm. »
• « Two young American researchers directed a radio telescope into the skies over New Jersey and detected a faint, mysterious hiss of radiation, with a wavelength of about a millimetre, filling the universe: the agonising echo of the creation of everything we know and more. »
• « We may never know for what mysterious reason some reptiles, at a certain point in evolution, decided to take flight and populate the prehistoric skies. »