skyborne
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of skyborne
Example Sentences
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How else to respond to a film that begins with a skyborne statue of Jesus being ferried over Rome—a second coming, brought to us by helicopter?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 2020
Three seasons of this marriage between skyscraper and skyscrapers, and he’s still looking out his skyborne window and saying, “It’s breathtaking every time I look.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2018
Unlike de' Barbari he actually did try to build a flying machine and hoped to use it for skyborne observation – he writes in a notebook of "surveying" the land from his "great bird".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2010
Last November 35 nations, including the U.S., gathered in Geneva and signed a pact pledging to work together against this skyborne peril.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then out of the silent darkness, Like a flying star, Flashed a plane With its skyborne humans.
From A Little Window by Jean M. Snyder
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