halo

Painters also adopted European conventions emphasizing divine rule in imperial portraits, as in a posthumous one of Akbar with a halo and winged cherubs above him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Originally, it had a little halo, but it broke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

The featured object is NGC 6426, a globular cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

The total car weight cannot be compared because of the increased mass of the modern safety systems, such as the halo head-protection structure.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Sunlight filters through her hair, making it look like a kind of halo around her head.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

They have gas pumps outside, human-sized, with round discs on top, lit up like pale moons or haloes minus the head.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

These include additional exotic interactions, Axion halos, and CPT violation studies.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025

Mr. Lloyd’s buttery tone is set within soaring lines, circular loops and halos of sound from Mr. Sewell’s custom-made electric guitar, and answered by delicate figures from Mr. Moran’s piano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

“It’s whatever you want. No limitations. If you’re into angels and halos and ghost dogs, then cool. If you wanna fly, you do you. If you wanna go back in time, knock yourself out.”

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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

Keith Haring, the art world’s celebrated graffitist, drew the distinctive red-and-gold album cover, featuring a haloed figure cradling a child.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

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

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

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

Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton