halo

It is a vast halo of superheated plasma extending millions of miles into space.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Painters also adopted European conventions emphasizing divine rule in imperial portraits, as in a posthumous one of Akbar with a halo and winged cherubs above him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

The featured object is NGC 6426, a globular cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Stocks in the space sector are deepening their declines on Thursday as the SpaceX halo fades further.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

It was a photo of a robed woman with a sharp star for a halo and a torch in her upraised hand.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

Andromeda is so close to the Milky Way that their individual haloes may be interacting, bumping into each other as the two galaxies pass in space.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 12, 2023

The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Accretion disks are fast-spinning haloes of matter that orbit around black holes at high speeds.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021

They kneeled between the frescoed walls, where some important-looking saints with blue haloes were standing on tiptoe to avoid foreshortening, and the gay paints of the stained-glass window poured upon their heads.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

We should be hesitant to place halos around the heads of people we admire, just as we shouldn’t totally condemn those with whom we disagree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Although the procedure is widely used and generally considered safe, it can sometimes lead to complications including dry eyes, glare, halos, and weakened corneal structure.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

“I was there, and I was a pop star — my thing was wearing ornate halos all the time,” you might say.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Chinese lanterns hover above their heads like red halos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

The illumination is so bright, my arms have halos around them.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I’m not ashamed to admit that there have been times when those 32-ounce tubs just stare at me day after day, haloed by the refrigerator light, moving further from consumable and closer to petri dish.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

“The way her hijab haloed Nour’s head” gives her a saintly presence, “or so Jimmy thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Keith Haring, the art world’s celebrated graffitist, drew the distinctive red-and-gold album cover, featuring a haloed figure cradling a child.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

In the dimness of a small theater inside Venice’s former City Hall, poet Sesshu Foster was in the spotlight, haloed against a velvet stage as he read aloud to an audience of 50.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Caravans of water-slicked black carriages lined the streets outside the city’s train stations, their red waiting lights haloed by the rain.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

She became slimmer, blonder, sleeker, her cheekbones carved by shadow, a golden nimbus haloing her hair.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton