1.   The sun was down, but there was still light buried in the thick clouds patrolling the sky.

2.   American warplanes patrolled the skies, but there were no airstrikes overnight, officials said.

3.   And I can remember when all we had to worry about were the United Nations shock troops massing on our borders and patrolling the skies in their black helicopters.

4.   And with his new acts of defiance, including firing missiles at U.S. planes patrolling his skies, he seems to be taunting the United States to bomb again.

5.   At the same time, the president and other senior officials insisted that the United States remained committed to patrolling the skies over Iraq without threat of retaliation.

6.   Awacs surveillance planes also patrol the skies.

7.   Additional military jets patrolled the skies.

8.   By dawn, the bell tower had been surrounded by hundreds of armed police officers and the sky was being patrolled by helicopters.

9.   In the Air Force, in particular, reserve and National Guard units are routinely used during their scheduled training periods to patrol the skies over Bosnia and Iraq.

10.   Jets patrol the skies over major cities.