ADVERB
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in a lavish or enthusiastic manner
he extolled her virtues sky-high -
to a very high level
garbage was piled sky-high
the men were flung sky-high by the explosion
prices have gone sky-high -
(with verb `to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces
they blew the bridge sky-high
the committee blew the thesis sky-high
How To Use sky-high In A Sentence
- The interest rates are sky-high, and if you lose control just a couple of times you're pretty much screwed.
- The bomb blew the house sky-high.
- 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.
- Organic agriculture is much less dependent than conventional farming on the inputs that are going sky-high. Times, Sunday Times
- Its sky-high ceilings, huge shuttered windows and fireplaces bigger than my box room take the breath away. The Sun
- 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
- The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit.
- And with Americans eating out more often, anyone who measured the sky-high salt levels in restaurant foods could have predicted trouble.
- Town halls are clawing back cash lost in public sector cuts by charging families sky-high prices to bury loved ones. The Sun
- Expert view: His cholesterol levels must be sky-high.
