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  • Dubbed Syph, the proposed underwater city, results when land begins to disappear and the value of what remains sky-rockets, and people are unable to afford living on land.

    Bridgette Meinhold | Inhabitat 2010

  • Fireworks, Fourth of July, Kingdom Come, blue lights, sky-rockets, an 'hell fire -- just like that.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • Dubbed Syph, the proposed underwater city, results when land begins to disappear and the value of what remains sky-rockets, and people are unable to afford living on land.

    Underwater Ocean City Could Be in Australia's Future | Inhabitat 2010

  • If registration sky-rockets in Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina in the demographics Obama mentioned and the polls show him within striking distance in those and other southern states, the entire campaign shifts.

    Obama Says He Can Flip Deep South States. But Can He Really? 2009

  • Looking to the part of the heavens which she pointed out, I distinctly observed two successive sky-rockets arise and burst in the sky.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • And of course it sky-rockets from there, and it will result in astronomically-high deficits, a tax burden on the next generation and generations to come, and a ruination of our economy.

    Matt Littman: Fred Thompson's Campaign Speech: Parsing it Word for Word 2008

  • My drive/desire sky-rockets for a brief time, a day or so, and then it is almost none existent.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • One's admiration for Jim Carrey's abilities sky-rockets when you compare.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • One's admiration for Jim Carrey's abilities sky-rockets when you compare.

    Pain and Fascination at the Dollar Theater 2005

  • The colored streamers, the clouds of rosy dust like sky-rockets, the crowds of people lined up to await him.

    The Worshippers Damon Francis Knight 1962

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