the Northern Lights

noun

: large areas of green, red, blue, or yellow light that sometimes appear in the night sky in far northern regions

Examples of the Northern Lights in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

The sun has also entered its solar maximum and this is the time of year to keep an eye out for the Northern Lights. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024 Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it! —

Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024 The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as a geomagnetic storm brings vibrant pink and green colors to a majority of the northern states. —

Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024 It’s clearly meant to latch onto a trending moment of people posting their own pictures of the Northern Lights from the amazing and rare display of the lights, which plunged deep into the United States on Thursday night. —

Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Northern Lights

Cite this Entry

Style

“The Northern Lights.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Northern%20Lights. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

Copy Citation