skiesskies /skaɪz/ 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Collocations- 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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► praise somebody/something to the skies
the plural of sky (=praise someone or something very much)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► 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.