How to Use jet stream in a Sentence

jet stream

noun

• The jet stream is more orderly in the winter months, when cold air prevents its winds from wandering off track.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
• The cluster began feeling jet stream winds aloft and fanned out into an arcing squall line reminiscent of an archers bow.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• El Niño tends to shift the jet stream south over the US.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• When the jet stream swings far to the north, air piles up and sinks.
  — William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
• Swift jet streams sculpt and stretch the clouds into long bands.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
• The ranges are the high pressure ridge in the mid-Atlantic and the trough of low pressure pushed by the jet stream.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• But just how fast was the jet stream blowing to push these planes up past the 800 mph mark?
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• The two high pressure zones have pinned the jet stream in place, keeping the Great Plains in the bull’s eye.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
• This jet stream has been positioned in such a way for the last 3 weeks.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• When a straight-line jet stream blows in from the Pacific Ocean.
  — Vivian Manning-Schaffel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• The current heat dome is taking shape in part because of the jet stream.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 18 June 2024
• Then, when the jet stream buckles over the central US, that dense, cold air plows south.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
• This ties into some of our work on 'resonance’ of the jet stream.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• But the breakdown of the vortex could change the shape of the jet stream below and end the pattern of mild weather.
  — Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2021
• The authors linked this to changes in the jet stream -- a fast west-to-east air current in the northern hemisphere.
  — Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2022
• The jet stream is the river of air up in the atmosphere that steers weather around.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• So, the jet stream was slow and Harvey stalled, dropping up to 60 inches of rain.
  — USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
• The map above shows some of the upper level jet stream features for this storm.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The storm track is a wind current, like the jet stream, that carries the river of moisture from west to east.
  — Robin Meadows, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2023
• This includes the jet stream, strong winds in the upper atmosphere that blow from west to east over the U.S.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2022
• For most of the winter, says Ventrice, the jet stream has stayed to the north of the continental US.
  — Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2021
• The storm, and a wall of arctic air, is expected to ride the jet stream across most of the nation over the next few days.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• Those cold waters then push the jet stream farther north.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 13 May 2024
• Throw in an active jet stream and things could get intense.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 5 Mar. 2021
• The jet stream is located over the equator, or center, of the planet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tropical Tidbits The reason for all the wild and wet weather is the jet stream.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• There aren't a lot of dips and turns in the jet stream now, Pastelok said, so there's nothing to disrupt this pattern.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Which brings us to this week’s jet stream of water news — much of it reported by The Times’ Ian James.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• In that case, Francis said, an extreme southward dip in the jet stream allowed the rains to sit and sit.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
• Tammy will be steered northeast ahead of a trough, or dip in the jet stream filled with cool air and low pressure.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024