How To Use Sky-high In A Sentence
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The interest rates are sky-high, and if you lose control just a couple of times you're pretty much screwed.
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Bills will remain sky-high as it drags on.
The Sun
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Bettie Page bangs and high ponytails for the ladies, sky-high quiffs for the guys.
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Not only that, the interest at these sky-high levels will also be back-dated to when you took out the agreement.
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Expert view: His cholesterol levels must be sky-high.
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Town halls are clawing back cash lost in public sector cuts by charging families sky-high prices to bury loved ones.
The Sun
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And with Americans eating out more often, anyone who measured the sky-high salt levels in restaurant foods could have predicted trouble.
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The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit.
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Hong Kong's sky-high home prices are the highest among those surveyed in a report by research firm Demographia.
Hong Kong Homes Rank Last in Affordability
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Its sky-high ceilings, huge shuttered windows and fireplaces bigger than my box room take the breath away.
The Sun
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The bomb blew the house sky-high.
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Don't waste your time trying to kill it in other ways than blowing it sky-high out of the water and into little tiny sharklet pieces.
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Organic agriculture is much less dependent than conventional farming on the inputs that are going sky-high.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the exciting thing about yesterday was the realization that the potential for each of their projects is sky-high.
The Changemakers
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Well placed to win three low-profile races in the north, Overstrand has had his confidence boosted sky-high.
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Sky-high interest rates are a recipe for disaster.
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She pops on a pink miniskirt, logo leggings and black top with signature skull heart and bones, carries a large bag from the brand, then adds bracelets, a belt, and sky-high sparkly silvery shoes!
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But he appealed - landing the public purse with the sky-high legal costs.
The Sun
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Had the one-dayers been played all in a heap, the South Aricans may well have continued to call the shots, their confidence having been blown sky-high.
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But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
But Who's Counting?
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‘It was a hard time - tax levels were sky-high, and it was hard to motivate anyone to work,’ said Doyle.
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Two-thirds of families admit they are worried about how they will pay sky-high heating bills.
The Sun
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Though the EU's rescue package has helped ease near-term concerns about a wave of defaults across Europe, concerns about the solvency of the indebted countries remain — whether governments, which are still running sky-high deficits, will be able to push through massive austerity measures for years to come remain.
U.S. stocks advance even as euro euphoria fades
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Now his confidence is sky-high and we go to Ayr with a great chance.
The Sun
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Just make sure you steer clear of peak times to avoid sky-high prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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And she did that at a time when her career has gone sky-high.
Times, Sunday Times
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When oil prices soared three years ago, airlines slapped sky-high surcharges on tickets and forecourt petrol prices zoomed up.
The Sun
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Stay here - and keep that glim outside or you'll blow the town sky-high!
THE NUMBERS
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His confidence is sky-high, and no wonder.
Times, Sunday Times
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And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones.
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Another factor increasing the chances the ICC will turn a profit: Hong Kong's sky-high office rents, which are among the world's highest.
Skyscraper, Moneymaker
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Flatform pumps finished with iridescent sequins and leather toe caps keep you comfortably sky-high.
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As a result, premiums are sky-high and companies such as AHP can't offer group rates to professional associations.)
SHECKYmagazine
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he extolled her virtues sky-high
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Others argue that it was the sky-high insurance premiums.
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garbage was piled sky-high
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It is not the only state-controlled bank to benefit from sky-high margins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without Arnie, it is highly debatable if today's prize money would be halfway near its current sky-high levels.
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Crashing from the sky-high hopes of two years ago, people are worried about jobs, the economy and their own uncertain futures, about the wars we're bogged down in and the threats to our planet.
Paul Loeb: Stop the Anonymous Hit Men: Make Shadowy Campaign Money the Issue
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Why should millions of responsible adults be forced to pay sky-high prices because a minority of louts cannot control themselves?
The Sun
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Or tackling the sky-high cost of childcare and elderly care?
Times, Sunday Times
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The levels always pack enough challenges to keep the tension ratcheted sky-high.
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Sky-high forecourt prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have prompted veteran fuel protesters to threaten motorway go-slows and refinery blockades in the coming week.
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Insurers insist they are working on new products to help pay for sky-high care bills.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their bunker was ripped to pieces and splinters of wood were sent sky-high.
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The Moscow-based Orbital Technologies has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International Space Station and workspace for science projects.
Russian Firm Plans Orbiting Hotel In Space
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By covering all the bases well before try-outs, you'll prevent freak-outs, plus your confidence will shoot sky-high.
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The penthouse thereafter became an object of global attention, and penthouse became a Global English word whose stock rose sky-high.
The English Is Coming!
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There are also a few tricks that raise civil service pay sky-high, such as accruing unlimited vacation days and the possibility of cashing in sick days, that don't exist in the private sector.
Undefined
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Sky-high grain elevators line the banks of the Buffalo River, guarding its southern flank.
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It was always a matter of time before the chances would go in and my confidence would be sky-high again.
The Sun
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Industry figures blame sky-high taxes on duty-paid ciggies.
The Sun
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Clearly, they are a team whose confidence has been boosted sky-high as a result of several triumphs.
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This will help you avoid a sky-high bill.
The Sun
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Your chances of attracting a guy can reach sky-high limits, and the only work involved is getting involved.
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The hotel 's "balloonist" guides guests on the in-house hot air balloon 10,000 feet above the Alps for sky-high views of Mont Blanc.
Slope News
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But the ground was still barely half-full because of the sky-high ticket prices.
The Sun
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Police called for sky-high car insurance premiums in Greater Manchester to be slashed after a huge fall in vehicle crime in the region.
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Still, insurance rates had risen, and security on dams and pumping stations soared sky-high, underwritten by our taxes.
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AVON, Colorado - Stubborn, sky-high flames ravaged nearly one-quarter of the pool building at Beaver Creek West Condominiums early Wednesday morning in Avon, Colorado.
The Vail Trail - All Sections
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All private assets were perishing; perceptions of risks were sky-high as bankruptcies amongst the banks accelerated.
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I haven't regularly worn eye pencil since the late 1980s (teamed with sky-high lacquered hair, heavily kohled eyes and rah-rah skirts worn with leg-warmers).
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Good news for aspiring writers: Advances for first-time authors have blown sky-high.
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Better yet, imagine that it could be your arm-waving or catcalls that make a contender crack and blow his game sky-high.
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He scored again and his confidence is sky-high now.
The Sun
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The good news is that Paul's campaign has offered her and her mother a private meeting with the candidate.12.16pm: Today's poll round-up, and there have been a blizzard of the things in the last two days, all much of a muchness but showing a slight slide in Mitt Romney's sky-high ratings and an uptick for Jon Huntsman and others.
New Hampshire primary - live: Mitt Romney fends off attacks
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This may be helpful in a particularly high-risk area, where premiums are sky-high or insurance coverage is generally very difficult to come by.
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I see that violent crime is out of control in our cities, snuffing out lives, mangling the limbs of the innocent, raising anxiety levels sky-high.
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The call comes amid concern over sky-high insurance costs.
The Sun
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THIS is where your calories can go sky-high.
The Sun
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He wants to tackle sky-high cover that prices young people off the road.
The Sun
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The explosion blew the building sky-high.
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the men were flung sky-high by the explosion
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Why you should skip it: When you know you can have only one plateful, chances are you will pile it sky-high.
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The "Very Funny" cable network burned off the whopping nine-episode season of its sly charmer about Chicago sportswriter PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her pals on Sundays opposite such sky-high-profile cable competition as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Mad Men — whose costar Joel Murray, aka rehabbed alky Freddy Rumsen, guested on Boys as the owner who sold the gang's hangout, Crowley's, to Brando (Reid Scott) in the season finale.
Cheers & Jeers: My Boys to Men?
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the committee blew the thesis sky-high
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In spite of this, most credit card issuers still fleece their cardholders with sky-high rates.
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BRITAIN'S economy has bounced back despite sky-high oil costs, experts said last night.
The Sun
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The price was clearly ludicrous - upped sky-high and higher by the by-election.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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The sky-high price is demanded on internet sites despite a pledge to clamp down on touts.
The Sun
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Managers in overvalued firms eventually realize they cannot generate the performance necessary to support their sky-high stock price.
Arithmetic and Google's IPO, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They can hit their straps, take some wickets and get their confidence sky-high.
The Sun
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It may even feature a sky-high hotel on its top floors.
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The union blames pub companies for driving up the cost by imposing sky-high rents on tenants.
The Sun
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Sixties Icon was a sixth winner of the week for a jockey whose confidence is sky-high.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite Nigel's existential grapplings, 2004 could send him and his bandmates soaring sky-high.
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Sociologists and researchers blame dismal job prospects and sky-high rents for such cocooning, which is said to affect 59 percent of Italians aged 18 to 34, according to the Eurispes research institute.
Alanat News
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prices have gone sky-high
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Three forces -- sky-high gasoline prices, the massive costs of rebuilding the Gulf Coast and ever-gloomier public assessments of the war in Iraq -- have combined to weaken Bush's reputation as a strong leader, and leave him vulnerable to the kind of second-term fiascoes that tend to befall all presidents: think Ronald Reagan and Iran-contra, or Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Troubled Waters
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But the V week rolled around, and the summer solstice announced its arrival with the mercury rising sky-high, and I knew that I was in no mood for vegetable makhani.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Mobile bills can be sky-high if you regularly phone home from abroad using your mobile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plastic processed cheese with practically no nutritional value but sky-high levels of fat is promoted as a source of protein.
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The thing blew sky-high, which is why the young Mountie found little more than smoldering earth.
Fall On Your Knees
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The municipality's greatest act of cruelty was to sit and do nothing as a few unpaid tax bills were driven sky-high by compound interest.
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Go for the thick black stockings and chunky, sky-high shoes.
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Well just take comfort that they are still paying and paying not only for their overpriced real estate and sky-high property taxes and association dues but also big bucks to solve that horrendous algae problem in their little lake.
Wednesday lunch in L.O. (Jack Bog's Blog)
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One factor that has made Brazil a magnet for foreign investment, much of it unwanted, is sky-high interest rates.
Brazil Leaders Pledge Action on Currency, Interest Rates
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they blew the bridge sky-high
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College principal Leo Solomon said: ‘If the fire had got to those cylinders the whole building would have gone sky-high.’
