How to Use corona in a Sentence

corona

noun

• The spacecraft dipped in and out of the corona at least three times.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2022
• The Sun’s corona is almost always blocked from view by the brighter disk of the Sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The probe flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft’s eighth close approach to the sun.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
• Crown -- or corona, in Latin -- is where this virus gets its name.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 15 May 2021
• In the era of of corona the ritual pleasures of spring can be tinged with dread.
  — Sunset Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• And there's still much more to learn about the corona, which is much hotter than the sun itself.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• The red spots at the top of the corona of the Sun during the total solar eclipse are called Bailey's beads.
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Parker Solar Probe will fly into the source of the solar wind, the corona.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 31 May 2017
• In fact, the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the sun's surface.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• All the people around me fell silent amid the cool, still air, and the corona of the sun radiated and wisped above.
  — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
• For one thing, the corona is about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun, which doesn’t make much sense to researchers.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
• The unreal way the corona wafts around the moon in a thin flaming circle.
  — Joanne Spataro, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The faint plasma of the sun’s corona is visible, stretching across the sky.
  — Katie Peek, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
• The sun’s corona shivered and glittered behind the moon.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
• This is why scientists refer to the ring around black holes as a corona.
  — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• The corona is one million degrees Kelvin, while the surface is around 6,000 Kelvin.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
• True to its name, the vaginal corona is like a crown, a ring inside the vaginal opening.
  — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• The secret to this technique is to choose the right place—like the black hole's corona—to collect energy.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021
• The seasons changed, the kids grew up, some of the actors were afraid of traveling because of corona.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
• Who needs Parthenon or Birth of Venus when blue lights swirl low, pink coronas kiss clouds, neon greens arc, deep reds stripe across stars.
  — Paul Brooke, Scientific American, 19 June 2023
• Understanding the solar wind and the blazing heat of the corona are key.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Dec. 2019
• Some of the nation saw a total solar eclipse, when the moon is encircled by a ring of light, or a corona, from the sun.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
• The most striking view during a total eclipse is said to be the outer atmosphere of the sun called the corona.
  — Valeria Merino, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2017
• Some process heats up these plasmas in the corona to millions of degrees and makes them speed away from the sun as solar wind.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2019
• Parker will be the first spacecraft to fly through the Sun’s corona, the outermost part of the star’s atmosphere.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• In a total eclipse, the corona, the cloud of hot gas that forms the sun’s outer atmosphere, can still be seen as a bright halo around the moon.
  — The Economist, 19 June 2020
• During an eclipse, only the sun’s corona is visible to the naked eye.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al.com, 2 July 2019
• Totality is the only time the corona of the sun, or the sun's atmosphere, can be seen from earth.
  — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• From my view in Ohio, the corona was significantly smaller and less pronounced than during the 2017 eclipse.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2024
• These 2-3 minute clips, as part of a National Science Foundation project, will later all be combined into a 60-minute video to help study the Sun's corona.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024