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  • verb Present participle of sky.

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Examples

  • One hundred and ninety years ago, the great artist began a series of famous cloud pictures known as his "skying period".

    Weatherwatch: Constable's noble clouds 2011

  • Have you ever been on the water watching a crew and wondered just what drill would fix that rower with the perpetually "skying" blade?

    unknown title 2009

  • I have done a good deal of skying — I am determined to conquer all difficulties and that most arduous one among the rest … The sky is the source of light in nature — and governs everything. —

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • In Craig Noone and Ashley Barnes they boast attackers who glide menacingly into areas defenders detest, the latter skying wastefully over the bar in the opening exchanges after Craig Mackail-Smith's shot had been palmed out by Keiren Westwood.

    Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Sunderland | Carling Cup match report 2011

  • He was skying on his perch singing like a young man without a care … Chest all puffed up and such ….

    Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status. 2010

  • Roberto Baggio is set to become the Italian national team's skying penalties in crucial situat ... sorry, technical director.

    Very Little To Protest About 2010

  • I would have given the kid a pass, nothing wrong with blue skying but when he trys to defend it by sayin “it is a practical application for solar technology be it big or small and will eventually lead to bigger and better things.” he then opens himself up to comment about its practicality.

    Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses by Hyun-Joong Kim & Kwang-Seok Jeong » Yanko Design 2008

  • If you have the basics down -- solid punch or two, a few techniques you can do well, maybe the ability to grapple a bit -- then aren't you skying off into the very theoretical realm?

    Archive 2009-02-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • It has all the elements of a typical Koontz's novel -- quirky characters with old wounds; animals that make Lassie look slow; and a skying off into esoteric science and math theories that make you really think.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • It has all the elements of a typical Koontz's novel -- quirky characters with old wounds; animals that make Lassie look slow; and a skying off into esoteric science and math theories that make you really think.

    Breathless Steve Perry 2009

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