skyborne

American  

[skahy-bawrn, -bohrn] / ˈskaɪˌbɔrn, -ˌboʊrn /

adjective

1. airborne.

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Etymology

Origin of skyborne

First recorded in 1940–45; sky + borne ¹

Example Sentences

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

The first plane, Alpha, was skyborne; next came Bravo, and it poured down the runway, lifted up, trailing four black swirls of smoke.

From Time Magazine Archive

So did he make supplication, and Zeus All-Provident heard him, And on the instant an eagle, of skyborne auguries noblest, Dark and majestic, the hunter of Æther, was sent from his footstool.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various