sky - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • darken: And still the sky darkened over the northern hills.
  • brighten: As the sun began to brighten the eastern sky from shades of merlot to indigo I began to hear numerous chips.
  • blacken: When I arrived the heavens opened and the sky blackened just in time to see... .
  • fill: Why is a black night sky filled with sharp bright stars is always so completely unexpected and so utterly breath-taking?
  • scan: As Sora scanned the sky, Kairi was staring at her left wrist.

Adjective modifier

  • cloudless: So that the moon could shine in a cloudless sky.
  • blue: They were a show of white against a bright blue sky.
  • starry: One advantage of the comet theory is that comets move across the starry sky.
  • cloudy: On the fifth of the Fifth Month I prefer a cloudy sky.

Modifies a noun

  • digibox: Terry, Belfast on June 24th, 2005 This is also my first non sky digibox and so far so good!
  • marshal: We have helped spread best practice on the use of sky marshals.
  • tv: Sky tv, behind European shopping center, reasonable rates.
  • clearing: The afternoon was brighter with the sky clearing before sunset with a touch of ground frost.
  • diving: Highlights of which are; sky diving in New Zealand, climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge and spending a year studying in France.

Noun used with modifier

  • night: The sort from a night sky at sea without stars.
  • pre-dawn: We will have to wait until it reappears in the pre-dawn sky in a few months.
  • twilight: From what has been said it might be concluded that Mercury is difficult to locate in the daytime or twilight sky.
  • midnight: It was so clear... December 1879, Cornwall, England Stars littered the midnight sky, shining calmly across the whole of Cornwall.

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