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Example sentences for "skies"

Lexicographically close words:
skids; skidway; skidways; skie; skied; skiey; skiff; skiffe; skiffs; skift
  1. Not knowing whether the signs in the skies might be construed as blasphemous, and lost in fathomless admiration for the marvellous power of the wizard, Gerald sought to get closer to Karospina and Mila.

  2. Thy skies of cloud and rain, Around our blazing camp-fires We close our ranks again.

  3. I SAID I stood upon thy grave, My Mother State, when last the moon Of blossoms clomb the skies of June.

  4. Through the tall and naked timber, Column-like and old, Gleam the sunsets of November, From their skies of gold.

  5. The Northern hills are blazing, The Northern skies are bright; And the fair young West is turning Her forehead to the light!

  6. With that deep voice which from the skies Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice, God's angel cries, Forbear.

  7. The fire-stain on its shattered wall, And open to the changing skies Its black and roofless hall, It stands before a nation's sight, A gravestone over buried Right!

  8. Beautiful yet thy temples rise, Though there profaning gifts are thrown; And fires unkindled of the skies Are glaring round thy altar-stone.

  9. While others hailed in distant skies Our eagle's dusky pinion, He only saw the mountain bird Stoop o'er his Old Dominion!

  10. I know the pent fire heaves its crust, That sultry skies the bolt will form To smite them clear; that Nature must The balance of her powers adjust, Though with the earthquake and the storm.

  11. It was indeed a time of shadows for the young musician, but the skies brightened after a while.

  12. Have you ever seen snow mountains, Tom, towering to the very skies in virgin whiteness, with the rivers of ice, miles in width, flowing silently down their rocky sides?

  13. A good horse beneath him, the free skies above, a trusty comrade at his side--what could be more pleasant?

  14. To accompany the Master does not exempt us from struggles and tempests, from dark skies and angry waves.

  15. Under the darkest shadows we look for the opening skies and for the return of Christ; we “proclaim the Lord’s death till he come.

  16. Yes, its blue skies are over us--its soft breezes shall fan us--the fragrance of its myriad flowers be wafted to us.

  17. Would I could see the sunny skies upon which your dark eyes first opened, and all the glorious forms that beauty wears in your vine-clad home beyond the seas.

  18. In your adversity, found you one faithful heart that stood firmly by your side and shared your tears, when skies were dark, and your pathway thorny and steep, and summer friends fell off like autumn leaves?

  19. Now is he vanished: the bewildered skies Flame out a desperate and last surmise; Then yield to Night, their sudden conqueror.

  20. And the birds began to totter in the skies and large trees began to shake.

  21. Gray skies and a snow-covered earth are the Junco colors, and when he flashes them along the hedgerows and wood borders we know that although it is only late September, winter will soon be with us.

  22. A twittering courser of evening skies who makes his home in our chimneys.

  23. Cry that goes upward from earth as she rolls through the peace of the skies 'How long?

  24. The skies are as blue as the blotting paper (as yet unspotted) on which this scrawl reposes, and the sunshine, which is deliciously warm, has always an air de fete.

  25. But to-day her skies were leaden because Polly and Penny had an opportunity to go to dancing school which was denied her, and it was scant comfort that they got it because they were so much younger than she.

  26. It is only the atmosphere breathed by the Latin peoples of the South, so that ever must it suggest blue skies and endless sunshine, cypress groves and olive orchards.

  27. And we kept a squadron of armed ships in their skies for years.

  28. And therefore-- In menacing array, the invading fleet spread itself about the skies of Dara, well beyond the atmosphere.

  29. No voice of triumph from those silent skies Breaks on the calm, and speaks of glories near, Nor bright wings flutter, nor fair glistening robes Proclaim that heavenly messengers are here.

  30. To the brave all homage render, Weep, ye skies of June!

  31. Winter has all our vales opprest, 5 When skies are cold and misty, and hail is hurling, Wilt thou glide on the blue Pacific, or rest In a summer haven asleep, thy white sails furling.

  32. These Finland skies and glorious nights, almost midnight suns, in June, July, and August, are worth the journey.

  33. The stranger's bread is hard and dry, And harsh his speech and hand; His skies are lead, his heart is dead Thy heart to understand.

  34. Shall man remain in silence, then, While all beneath the skies The chorus joins?

  35. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas?

  36. From all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise!

  37. And soar through our skies with invisible wing; But here, on the earth, where in wretchedness lie Its sin-stricken children to struggle and die.

  38. While the stars unnumbered roll Round the ever-constant pole, Far above these spangled skies All my thoughts to God shall rise.

  39. All is silent as can be, And the vaulted skies up yonder Swarm with many a starry wonder, While the moon sinks in the sea.

  40. Her language was,-- "Shall I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize And sailed through bloody seas?

  41. Green pastures are before me, Which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me, Where darkest clouds have been.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.