cirrus
Example Sentences
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Wind shear can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even in clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024
The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023
Aside from those brief glimpses through the storm, the cirrus clouds resembled a flat blanket beneath the deep blue sky.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023
Meyers’s lines grew icy and severe, distant and distinct, a contrail mingling with the cirrus clouds.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
