tropic

Example Sentences

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The flooding was caused by an atmospheric river, or a long, narrow stream of moist air in the atmosphere, that traveled to Western Washington and dumped warm, tropic rain across the region.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Floods in Fiji caused by tropic cyclones have displaced thousands of people in recent years and wrought economic havoc.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022

The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck