Northern lights

Example Sentences

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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

Triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm, the northern lights made a rare visit to the Southland on Tuesday night, painting the skies above the Angeles National Forest in dazzling pink and purple hues.

From Los Angeles Times

But he was not prepared for the aurora borealis—the northern lights.

From Literature