How to Use corona in a Sentence

corona

noun
Definition of coronanext
Synonyms for coronanext
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • Someone in the literature a few years prior had pointed out a tile with a very large corona or possibly a tile that didn’t tile.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • The image showcases the sun’s corona, its pink chromosphere and Baily’s beads, which are narrow openings of sunlight that shine through due to the moon’s rugged landscape.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024

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