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sky-high
[ skahy-hahy ]
adverb
- very high:
Costs have gone sky-high since the war.
sky-high
adjective
- at or to an unprecedented or excessive level
prices rocketed sky-high
adverb
- high into the air
- blow sky-highto destroy completely
Word History and Origins
Origin of sky-high1
Example Sentences
They suffer sky-high maternal mortality rates, illiteracy, and a daily struggle against violence and poverty.
Along this sky-high route, nearly every 19th-century saloon or historic hotel has a ghost story to tell.
Unless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky.
The popular storage service is the latest young tech firm to coin a sky-high valuation.
But after the painful shocks of 2008, the world got used to sky-high oil prices and eventually absorbed the impact.
By this time all my American inventions, which would have paralysed Europe, are blown sky high!
To hear of Sardathion, the city built by the Gods of Old, is to see its domes of marble rising sky-high in the sunset-lighted air.
There the price of lumber had been boosted sky-high, and this destroyed Dingles profits on contracts he had undertaken.
Had he not done so he and his brave comrades would have been blown sky-high by the touch of a button a mile away.
You can knock his insurance sky-high and get some money yourself.
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