cirrus

Example Sentences

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Some spread out and persist as high, thin cirrus clouds.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

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