Northern lights

Example Sentences

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The northern lights cast a ghostly green color over the white world ahead of them until dark clouds rolled in and it began to snow, making it hard to see.

From Literature

This latest solar storm has now weakened so space weather forecasts from the Met Office don't suggest another display of the northern lights over the next few days.

From BBC

One of the Arctic’s great tourist attractions is, for military planners, one of its great irritants: the northern lights.

From The Wall Street Journal

A few days before Christmas, Dasher is soaring alone through skies illuminated by the northern lights when, upon landing, she meets a polar bear.

From The Wall Street Journal

It looks like the northern lights up there, if the lights were red, orange, and purple rather than green and blue.

From Literature