aeriform

Example Sentences

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These aeriform songs rarely involve drums, which makes them feel timeless, at least in the short term.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Here, the aeriform melodies at his back feel so beautiful, the brutality of his words vanishes in the breeze.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

For it must apparently have formed part of an aeriform mass in which they were immersed at an earlier stage of their history.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Much light was evolved, and a great flame appeared at the negative pole; on changing the direction of the current, "aeriform globules, which inflamed in the air, rose through the potash."

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

The solid surface of the earth has two envelopes, one liquid, and the other aeriform.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von