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- verb Present participle of
sky .
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Examples
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One hundred and ninety years ago, the great artist began a series of famous cloud pictures known as his "skying period".
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Have you ever been on the water watching a crew and wondered just what drill would fix that rower with the perpetually "skying" blade?
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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
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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
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He was skying on his perch singing like a young man without a care … Chest all puffed up and such ….
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Roberto Baggio is set to become the Italian national team's skying penalties in crucial situat ... sorry, technical director.
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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
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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
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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
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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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