Sentence examples for skylarking from inspiring English sources

There might have been some romance to it — there might have been some road signs and red neon, some dead ends and diners, some hash browns — but really I was just skylarking.

Skylarking - XTC As recommended by: Vibedoctor A title gleaned from Percy Bysshe Shelley's To a Skylark, and music heavily influenced by the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Kinks, XTC's 1986 Skylarking was produced by Todd Rundgren.

What happened: A dignified elder statesman of reggae played some of his best hits with considerable enthusiasm, including Money Money, Zion's Gate, Every Tongue Shall Tell, Cuss Cuss and, of course, Skylarking.

If you don't have XTC's "Skylarking" on heavy rotation throughout the summer, you're making a mistake.

Over a long dinner, after the cold war and almost 30 years since the first lunar landing, a former astronaut who walked on the Moon and one of the Apollo flight directors got to skylarking about the good old days, something people do when they think of their past receding and the world changing all around.

As for Anthony Heap, it was "once more unto the West End", where he found "the same good humoured crowds, the same high spirited skylarking, the same awe inspiring floodlighting", though it "wasn't perhaps quite so overwhelming an occasion".

In truth, the difference between the complex musicality of the woodlark and the dry twitterings of a skylark is as great as between Bach and Eminem.

The rock he treads on, whether quartz, feldspar, limestone or sandstone; the birds above him, whether exulting skylarks, hovering kestrels or a rising heron, "a foldaway construction of struts and canvas"; the foil or spoor of animals, and their eyes glowing orange or green in the dark (even spiders' eyes, he writes, show in the dark like tiny stars); trees, grass, fly-tipping, flowers.

When the British government decided to put its faith in America's space shuttle as a reliable way of carrying British experiments into space, it off-loaded Skylark to the private sector, where it continued to offer a cheap and reliable way for experiments to leave the atmosphere in contrast to the shuttle, which is neither cheap nor reliable.In this section Nanotechnology cures cancer!

Illustration of a skylark.

Also a favourite of the poets was the European skylark (Alaudia arvensis).