How to use "sky" in a sentence

It's warm and sunny with just a few white clouds in the sky.

I look up at the sky

The sun is shining into the canyon and a raven has just flown across the blue sky above my head

The sky above is beautiful: clear with bright stars

Finally, the sky grows lighter

Slowly the pale sky turns bright blue

As the sky grows brighter, I think of the raven

On August 30th the weather was cool, the sky was black with smoke from domestic fires, and rain fell; rain and more rain

At 9 o'clock on that Thursday night a great fire in London Docks changed the colour of the sky in the East End of London to a deep red

The night was not very dark; there was a full moon, hidden from time to time by large clouds moving quickly across the sky

Suddenly, an enormous hand reached down from the sky and took the bucket of water from her

But, as she held the old man's hand, she gazed wide-eyed at the sky

Now, for the first time, there was a cloud in the clear blue sky of his life

The sky grew lighter, but not a door or window was open in the street

He lay back with his head turned to the sky, the light from the two silver candlesticks falling on his smiling, peaceful face.

But then I see the light in the sky, and I realise that the shot was a flare

The man looks at the sky.

The sky is not there.

The sun is lower in the sky now, it's a little less hot, and the radio keeps him company with old songs about love and women, rock and roll and country music

The sun is almost down now, the sky a deep orange and red

As he lies there shouting and screaming and trying to pull the pieces of shot from his skin, he looks up at the beautiful blue sky and green trees and magnificent forest.

Instead, there was calm blue ocean as far as they could see, under a cloudless sky

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

She arrived just as the rain began to pour, and lightning flashed across the sky

Your parents could rent a sky apartment instead."

Above her, the sky was a perfect, cloudless blue

Sala rolled onto her back and lay floating, staring up at the sky

Sala looked out at the view: nothing but black and silver tower blocks against the cold gray sky

The night sky appeared behind him, then the flames at the edge of a star

I can't believe how fresh the air is and the sky is just..." At last, he paused for a second.

"When he comes out, we'll be able to move to a sky apartment

Long before we reached Manderley, there was blue sky over our heads

'We've got people coming to dinner.' We all got up and Giles looked up at the sky.

I remember standing on the terrace and staring up at the sky

The fireworks rose into the sky and turned into stars and flowers

The sky was red and gold

Then suddenly, the sky was dark too

Lightning flashed against the grey sky

The sky was dark now and there were no stars.

I went on watching the sky

A blood-red light was spreading across the sky

There was no moon and the sky above our heads was black

But the sky in front of us was full of dreadful light

Meanwhile, the sky grew darker by the second; massive storm clouds, like the clenched fists of celestial giants, squeezed the last light out of the day

Suddenly the sky was shattered by lightning, then by a hard clap of thunder, and the night imploded into a deeper darkness, into infinite and perfect blackness.

The sky was cerulean blue and clear, and he wished he had time to take the Cessna up for a few hours

Several blocks to the north, an ugly column of smoke rose into the twilight sky from what was left of Tina's house, roiling, night-black, the upper reaches tinted around the edges by the last pinkish rays of the setting sun.

The traffic thinned out as they drove farther from the heart of town, closer to the looming black mountains that thrust into the last electric-purple light in the western sky.

Above the lights that cast a frosty glow on the airport parking lot, the heavily shrouded sky was moonless, starless, perfectly black

Although he was struggling to cast off the seizure of claustrophobia that had gripped him, was trying to pretend that the organic-looking ceiling wasn't pressing low over his head and that only open sky hung above him instead of thousands of tons of concrete and steel rock, his own panic attack concerned him less than what was happening beyond the viewport.

A brisk wind spilled over the jagged horizon under a low and menacing sky, snapping ice-hard flurries of snow against the windshield of the Explorer.

When they came out of this curve, the trees fell back from the verge, and open sky lay above for the first time since they had departed the county blacktop.

I pointed out Mars, a bright spot of light rising in the sky, towards which so many telescopes were pointing.

It was the head of the shop assistant who had fallen in, looking black against the hot western sky

The smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be a better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead seemed to darken as these clouds rose

Overhead the stars were coming out, and in the west the sky was still a pale, bright, almost greenish blue

The tops of the trees and the roofs of Horsell were sharp and black against the western sky

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey Road, Woking, saw a star fall from the sky into the woods to the north-west

I heard a church strike midnight, and then I saw Maybury Hill, with its tree-tops and roofs black and sharp against the red sky.

The storm had left the sky clear, and over the smoke of the burning land the tiny bright light of Mars was dropping into the west, when a soldier came quietly into my garden

As we talked, the sky gradually became lighter

A violent explosion shook the air, and a column of water, steam, mud and broken metal shot far up into the sky

As I woke up, I noticed a seated figure with his face staring at the sky, watching the sunset.

The sun was just setting and the Houses of Parliament stood against a peaceful sky

Unable to learn what was happening from his window, my brother went down and out into the street, just as the sky turned pink with the dawn

And in the sky above them, the dawn was growing brighter - clear and calm.

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

I expected at least to see smoke or fire, but there was only the deep-blue sky above and one single star

From there we could see the searchlights on Richmond Hill and Kingston Hill moving in the sky, and at about eleven the windows shook, and we heard the sound of the large guns that had been put in position there

You can imagine, too, how they watched as the blackness rose into the sky

Then, far away, another appeared, stepping over some small trees, and then another could be seen even further away, crossing the flat mud that lay between the sea and the sky.

The sun sank into grey clouds, the sky darkened and an evening star came into sight

Something rushed up into the sky, something flat and broad and very large, and flew in a great curve

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

Then something - something struggling violently - was lifted high against the sky and brought down again

After my time in the darkness, the day seemed very bright, the sky was shining blue

The morning was bright and fine and there were little golden clouds in the eastern sky

After checking the sky for Martians, we hurried quickly to the house on Putney Hill where he had his hiding-place.

But before dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned again towards Regent's Park

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

Against the sky-line an eager dog ran and disappeared

At the thought, I lifted my hands towards the sky and began thanking God

As I ran back towards the church, I saw flames against the evening sky

Emily is an astronomer - a scientist who studies the stars in the sky