aureole

Example Sentences

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The heart of “Aeronauts,” not surprisingly, is what happens as the balloon goes higher and higher, as salutations like “clouds ahoy” are exchanged and wonders like an aureole or circular rainbow are observed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

That will allow the heat to extend farther into the country rock, creating a larger aureole.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

“I love you, Papa,” she said, her smile an aureole of smeared toothpaste and happiness.

From Nature • Mar. 12, 2014

Cressida is a boyish creature, “narrow-hipped, flat-chested” and with “frizzled hair like a dark aureole about her head.”

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014

The number of adorers he had had in all classes made an aureole of glory round his head.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando