skywrite

[ skahy-rahyt ]

verb (used without object)

skywrote, skywritten, skywriting.

1. to engage in skywriting.

verb (used with object)

skywrote, skywritten, skywriting.

1. to produce (a message, advertisement, etc.) by skywriting.

Other Words From

• skywriter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of skywrite¹

First recorded in 1925–30; sky + write

Example Sentences

The conservative website Free Republic chartered a plane to fly over NBC headquarters in New York and skywrite a message demanding the release of the Broaddrick interview.

From Slate

Check it out on Twitter — #promposal will show you some of the outrageous ones, with Richie Riches hiring helicopters to descend on the lucky girl or planes to skywrite “Prom?”

From Washington Post

Asbury-Oliver eventually taught her husband to skywrite, despite her code of secrecy.

From BusinessWeek

You might as well skywrite your questions to a press spokesman as put them in an e-mail.

From Slate

And so in his later films, faces are pressed against the window of the camera lens; people talk too loud or too much; makeup is applied with a trowel; actors are encouraged to go over the top, to skywrite their emotions on the screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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