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sky in English:

1. clouds clouds


Look at those clouds.
By evening, a few clouds had formed.
As a boy I used to lie on my back and look at white clouds.
If time were reversed, raindrops would collect themselves from the ground and fly up to the clouds.
After dark clouds, you get periods of refreshing clear weather.
When I was a kid, I used to think that fairy floss and clouds were alike.
The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain.
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.
The train belched clouds of black smoke into the air as it chugged away.
we have water vapor in clouds
By morning the clouds had lifted and the whole length of the Himalayas lay before us in all its splendor.
Clouds cast a shadow blacker than the night.
Alphonse looked at the racing clouds, his eyes turned to the sky.
Clouds blacken the sky (and everyone's mood).

2. sky sky


The sky brightened.
The desire to fly in the sky like a bird inspired the invention of the airplane.
She was born just a generation past slavery. A time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons: because she was a woman, and because of the color of her skin.
A recent analysis by Boeing forecasts that unless safety is improved, jet airliners could be falling out of the sky at the rate of once a week by the year 2010.
María looked at the starry sky, with a quarter moon that illuminated that autumn night.
Many people of Slavic origin have names ending with -sky.
The birthday festival is based on a legend that colorful flowers and honeydew fell from the sky when Buddha was born.
The turbulent sands above our heads, the flinging of our swords... they're naught but falling stars in the night sky.
It's also scary when the lightning strikes across the sky, but what's really scary is the sound. Once, my house was struck by lightning and since then I've become even more scared.
Sky and "heart" are terms of endearment in Spanish.
It was raining when I woke up, but by afternoon the sky had cleared up and the sun was shining.
Ancient astronomers did not have instruments to help them see objects in the sky.
I was deceived by the blue sky and brought no umbrella.
The sky is gloomy and gray - a typical rainy-season sky.
Something looking like a UFO made a sudden turn then disappeared into the distant sky.