How to Use cirrus in a Sentence

cirrus

noun

• There were just a few wispy cirrus clouds in the bright blue sky, but that was enough to spark a fire rainbow.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 June 2018
• First, physicists came to grips with high clouds—the icy, wispy ones like cirrus clouds that are miles high.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2019
• Tom looks at 10 pages of class notes on cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds and starts to panic.
  — Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
• Crown Lands singer/drummer Cody Bowles commands cirrus-scaling pipes and hot beats.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2022
• Meyers’s lines grew icy and severe, distant and distinct, a contrail mingling with the cirrus clouds.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Thin cirrus clouds will then begin to approach the coast right around sunset as temperatures quickly fall back to the 50s.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2022
• When the cirrus clouds are lit with color, they can be mistaken for iridescence, according to the NWS.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2022
• One telltale clue, per Tech Times: The scientists found that the flashes seemed to occur around high-floating cirrus clouds, and those clouds are made up of ice crystals.
  — John Johnson, Fox News, 17 May 2017
• For example, thin, wispy cirrus clouds, the most common type of high cloud, are difficult to spot against a background of snow, according to NASA.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 16 Mar. 2018
• Clouds come in all shapes and sizes: wispy, high cirrus, puffy cumulus, the low, gray stratocumulus layers that blanket gloomy days.
  — Kate Marvel, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2017
• Fall streaks happen when the heavier ice crystals in cirrus clouds fall into and evaporate into the drier air below the cloud.
  — oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2019
• Strong jet stream winds captured some of the system’s upper-level cirrus, or wispy ice clouds at high altitudes, and carried them east across the Blue Ridge and towards the Mid-Atlantic.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• Some of the cirrus clouds on the southeast horizon are the outer cloud bands from Dorian, according to the National Weather Service.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Nearly horizontal ice particles in cirrus clouds that are 3- to 5-miles high up in the atmosphere.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2017
• The alto cirrus indicate a change in weather, the mare’s tail mean high-altitude winds, the cumulus means building moisture.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
• In fact, the warming effect from cirrus contrails is actually greater than that of the CO2 from burning aviation fuel.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• Harps, flutes and vibraphones formed dissociating patterns like cirrus clouds atop the thick colors of an organ.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Dense forest had suddenly given way to a lake flanked by mountains — a Chia pet landscape of undulating greenery beneath a vivid blue sky streaked with cirrus clouds.
  — Jada Yuan, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• The three main types are cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
• While some contrails fade out quickly, others spread out to form high-altitude cirrus clouds, which have a significant warming effect.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• Since the sun is low to the horizon, those alternating shadows and strips of light were projected onto the underside of the thinner, more diaphanous cirrus clouds, which acted like a canvas for the delicate pastel hues.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• These are clearly very high-altitude cirrus, or ice clouds, definitely not liquid.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• But detailed observers will notice some cirrus on the southeast horizon and -- believe it or not -- this is actually the outer cloud bands of Hurricane Dorian.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Another idea requires thinning cirrus clouds so heat could more easily escape Earth’s surface.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
• In addition to educational aims, OreSat will map high altitude cirrus clouds in an effort to better understand their role in climate change, and also test a Wi-Fi signal from space.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Unfortunately, Rowan-Robinson admitted in a recent research paper that the observations are not high quality and that the region of sky they were captured in is made of filaments of gas known as cirrus.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Nov. 2021
• Strips of high-altitude cirrus clouds, indicated that Josephine had developed some healthy upper-level outflow.
  — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• At those frigid heights, some of the particles become nuclei around which condensation gathers and then quickly freezes, helping to produce puffy contrails that either vanish or persist as wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• The wind-shear phenomenon can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Clouds are classified into 10 basic genera—such as cirrus and cumulonimubus—which describe their overall character, reports Stephanie Pappas at LiveScience.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024