halo

He noticed an unusually bright patch surrounded by a dark halo, a pattern suggesting that material on the lunar surface had recently been disturbed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The crater appeared as a "large bright spot circled by a dark halo" by the LRO probe, which has been studying the Moon since 2009.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Porsche’s halo SUV uses twin electric motors, active suspension and an explosive Push-to-Pass button that activates wild, jaw-clenching acceleration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Right now, there’s a halo of rarity around Raising Cane’s due to its newness, which likely adds to the psychosis.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

For talent, he’s making me a white dress with a silver halo and silver wings.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

Diffuse gas in the two galactic haloes would compress on collision, forming a curved structure like the bow wave from a ship moving through water.

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

Above them, the ceiling light dropped haloes in their hair as they listened on.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

“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 Milky Way and other galaxies live in these dark matter halos."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026

She bent down and kissed both Jasmine and TJ on the tops of their heads, the remnants of her day now hovering around them like hard-work halos.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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

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

As the couple is careful to acknowledge their continued privilege, in part to forestall criticism, they are also haloed by its golden glow, their pain rendered comfortably, consumably, palatable.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

At each road intersection Billy’s group was joined by more Americans with their hands on top of their haloed heads.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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