skywrite
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- skywriter noun
Etymology
Origin of skywrite
Example Sentences
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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
When Sinatra failed to respond to a barrage of calls and telegrams from Yorkin and Lear, they hired a plane to fly over his house and skywrite their phone number.
From Time Magazine Archive
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