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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skies
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
praise sb/sth to the skies (=praise someone or something very much)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
▪ Being surprised by opinion polls is like being taken aback by blue skies.
▪ He was walking home in a thick fog, wondering when the crisp, blue skies of autumn might appear.
▪ The day was idyllic, with clear blue skies and temperatures up in the shirt-sleeves.
▪ And yet, almost without exception, they obey the convention that clear blue skies are good and precipitation is not.
▪ Cars lurk beneath in the shade. Blue skies are criss-crossed with a network of overhead wires.
▪ Brilliant blue skies and unseasonably balmy weather prevailed.
▪ Clear blue skies mean you bake all day and freeze all night.
clear
▪ The day was idyllic, with clear blue skies and temperatures up in the shirt-sleeves.
▪ The days were hot, filled with relentless sunshine and clear skies.
▪ Endlessly clear skies and lowering water tables.
▪ And yet, almost without exception, they obey the convention that clear blue skies are good and precipitation is not.
▪ Under clear blue skies, it was hot as they bumped into the beige desert.
▪ Desert areas on Earth often have wide diurnal temperature ranges due to nighttime radiative cooling through very clear skies.
▪ This week it was 74F at lunchtime, with clear blue skies and radiant sun.
▪ Moreover, the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way.
grey
▪ The rain stops and the grey skies begin to clear.
▪ The grey and stormy skies made them if anything greener.
▪ It was a chilly May day, with grey skies and a wind which seemed thirsty for another death.
▪ The weather was appalling, the scudding grey skies hurling angry bursts of rain against the windows.
open
▪ He has been a staunch advocate of the open skies policy which has helped to open up regional aviation.
■ VERB
darken
▪ The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmest perdition to darken the skies since mythological times.
look
▪ Karen Lansdown picks out her favourites Heaven sent Look to the skies for stunning accessories.
▪ Kha Yang looked into the south skies and listened for friendly air.
take
▪ Being surprised by opinion polls is like being taken aback by blue skies.
▪ This weekend a hundred thousand spectators are expected to watch more than eighty balloons as they take to the skies.
▪ Now gardening at his home in Oxfordshire is a passion but he still loves to take to the skies.
▪ The birth takes place under threatening skies.
▪ Publicly there were muzzy plans for when the city populations took to the skies enmasse.
▪ Reginald Mitchell died of cancer not long after the first Spitfire took to the skies.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
skies
▪ a land of blue skies and warm sunshine
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blasted, totalled, broken-winded, shot-faced London, doing time under sodden skies.
▪ Both have a kind of totemic power in these skies and know and respect each other.
▪ Endlessly clear skies and lowering water tables.
▪ Helped by salt and sunny skies, snow will also melt slowly even if the thermometer stays below freezing.
▪ The skies are full, too.
▪ The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmest perdition to darken the skies since mythological times.
▪ The birds call constantly in haunting high cries that make you scan the skies while they are still far away.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skies

Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. Skies (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a, sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. [root]158. See Scum, and cf. Hide skin, Obscure.]

  1. A cloud. [Obs.]

    [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]

    She passeth as it were a sky.
    --Gower.

  3. The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.

    The Norweyan banners flout the sky.
    --Shak.

  4. The wheather; the climate.

    Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
    --Shak.

    Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.

    Sky blue, an azure color.

    Sky scraper (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form.
    --Totten.

    Under open sky, out of doors. ``Under open sky adored.''
    --Milton.

Wiktionary
skies

n. (sky English). vb. (en-third-person singularsky)

Usage examples of "skies".

The Dragonriders fought Thread in the skies, and people lived comfortably enough between Passes.

An early riser by nature, he was in the habit of scanning the morning skies for weather signs, so he had seen the fireball.

The stars haven't moved that much and there are bright ones in our skies that the Ancients saw from old Earth only as dim ones.

The skies currently above Pern had altered within Rukbat's system since the colonists had first surveyed it twenty-five hundred and fifty-three Turns ago.

Sweeping the skies for the appearance of more dragons, F'lessan quickly stripped off safety straps, shucking the pile to the nearest bench, as he began to shed his flying gear.

By getting to know our night skies and taking images-" F'lessan tapped the print.

By getting to know our night skies and taking images—" F'lessan tapped the print.

Coincidentally, earth itself had a Near Earth Object scare about the time I fin­ished writing the manuscript, and many concerned scien­tists were watching the rather busy skies near our planet to identify and forewarn of other close encounters with NEO's and PHA (Possibly Hazardous Asteroids).

She turned on one wing tip and, knowing these skies better than she did, he did the same and soared through the narrow pass.

However, I went to the source, as it were, for correct astronomical dates for the latest Pern book, The Skies of Pern.

The thrust of The Skies of Pern, the need for the inhabitants to become more aware of their spatial environ­ment, and the critical need to set up additional observatories to help prevent a recurrence of such a cosmic impact, is as modern and timely as the one currently in operation on earth, even if it requires the dragons of Pern to implement.

In The Skies of Pern, McCaffrey serves up a buffet which can satisfy virtually anyone who steps up to its table.

The citizens of Spokane saw two strange objects in their skies, both bluish white with a slight reddish tinge and oblong in shape.

The Manners were among a score of people who described similar objects in the Michigan skies of March 21, 1966.