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 • Apr. 23, 2015
You might as well skywrite your questions to a press spokesman as put them in an e-mail.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2011
One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane to skywrite ads for its clients' products directly above the shrine.
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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