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  • adjective Poetic & R. Surrounded by sky.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sky.
  • adjective Surrounded by sky.

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Examples

  • From the constant reminder of gray-grassed, gray-skyed Kansas to the blue-adoring Munchkins to Emerald City with all its greenness to the china white doll-people of Quadling Country, it just never ends.

    Books in 2009, #5 pabba 2009

  • Teachers at International School Bangkok are working on their Certificate of Educational Technology another SUNY course, with Jeff Utecht and Kim Cofino leading the way and I was skyed in to talk about collaboration and global projects.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Julie Lindsay 2009

  • When I talked to Larry about this move, he blue-skyed a neat little idea that's stuck with me: what if lawmakers were required to abstain from votes over issues in which they had a financial interest?

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Teachers at International School Bangkok are working on their Certificate of Educational Technology another SUNY course, with Jeff Utecht and Kim Cofino leading the way and I was skyed in to talk about collaboration and global projects.

    Conversations about Collaboration and Global Projects Julie Lindsay 2009

  • It was deep twilight now, a tranquil blue-skyed evening; everything rose out from the splashes of light upon the ground into dim translucent tall masses; within the cavities of the airships small inspecting lamps glowed like cloud-veiled stars, and made them seem marvellously unsubstantial.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • We were not able to do anything definite with the new villas built or building around Algeciras, though they looked very livable, and seemed proof of a prosperity in the place for which I can give no reason except the great natural beauty of the nearer neighborhood, and the magnificence of the farther, mountain-walled and skyed over with a September blue in November.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Its light was strong and clear across this dark-skyed world.

    The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

  • So you see they have apples as well as oranges in Italy; only, apples are practical, so they are generally omitted in the poetical descriptions of the blue-skyed land.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • It was deep twilight now, a tranquil blue-skyed evening; everything rose out from the splashes of light upon the ground into dim translucent tall masses; within the cavities of the airships small inspecting lamps glowed like cloud-veiled stars, and made them seem marvellously unsubstantial.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • In the Salon that year six thousand pictures were offered, and only two thousand accepted, and many of these were "skyed."

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

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