skywriter
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- noun
- /ˈskaɪˌraɪtər/
- The skywriter created stunning messages that delighted everyone at the festival.
- hired a skywriter
Examples
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So cancel the skywriter, the clown, the singing Mountie, the scoreboard, or the "will you marry me?" message hidden in an unusual place.
Blog text (25) -
Soon, we'll be overrun by every banner tower, skywriter and air freighter who thinks they can be one of us.
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What should I do, hire a skywriter?
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One year, he hired skywriters to write each guest's name above the house.
Fiction book (1997) -
Skywriter in Tucson this morning made my day.
Blog text (24) -
There had to have been at least one liberal fascist whose first impulse was muttering about which FAA laws must have been broken and how surely it was illegal and that the skywriter was in trouble now for having gone too far and, you know, skywriting might need to be illegal.
Blog text (24) -
الآن العثور على بلدي أمطرت بولاريس skywriter.
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For her wedding surprise, he hired a skywriter to spell out their names in the sky.
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During the air show, a skywriter wrote 'Welcome Home' in large letters above the crowd.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skywriter is a modern English compound of sky ('the air above us') and writer ('someone who writes'). A helpful way to remember it is to picture a pilot 'writing' words or pictures with smoke high in the sky, which is exactly what a skywriter does.