skywrite

[ skahy-rahyt ]

verb (used without object)

, sky·wrote, sky·writ·ten, sky·writ·ing.

1. to engage in skywriting.

verb (used with object)

, sky·wrote, sky·writ·ten, sky·writ·ing.

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

“Then skywrite it. Here, take my walking stick.”

From Literature

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

Related Words

• advertise
• announce
• boost
• broadcast
• promulgate
• tout
• trumpet