How to Use sunspot in a Sentence

sunspot

noun
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  • The hotel is filled with sunspots along the rocks to bake on for the day.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2024
  • When the flows reach the same speed, more sunspots are observed.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Note the sunspots and cloudy smears in the lower half of the window at right.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Cranes frame the dome’s silhouette, and a few sunspots dot the face of the rising sun.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, a sunspot on the northern half of our star is bulking up.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • At that time Mercury will look somewhat like a small sunspot.
    — Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The hands have veins and sunspots and the faint wrinkles that gather around the wrists; the nails have cuticles, pale and precise.
    — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Indeed, a couple of large, highly complex sunspot groups formed near the end of the year 2020.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Over the past week, three X-class flares have spurted off from two eruptive sunspot groups.
    — Matthew Cappucci and Joe Kunches, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • These sunspots do have the power to modify the climate on Earth.
    — Mark Maslin, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Astronomers observed sunspots with telescopes for the first time in 1610.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The sunspot region that caused the coming storms is actually shifting to the back of the sun now.
    — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • For dense, discrete sunspots, on the other hand, lasers are magic.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Some whale strandings may be due to solar storms and sunspots, a new study suggests.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The sunspot photographed in January is about 3,700 miles across, per the statement.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Some regions develop cool spots that glow a darker red than the rest of the orb—those are called sunspots.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This event will have short talks about the sun, tours of the buildings, and safe viewing of sunspots and solar flares from their 1845 telescope.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2019
  • Over the past year and a half, the sun was quiet with barely a sunspot noticeable on its surface.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The average sunspot is the size of our planet, according to Newsweek.
    — Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2022
  • An explosion from a new and unnamed sunspot produced the X-class flare, the first of the solar cycle 25.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • Carrington described the flare as intensely bright, and as migrating from the left to the right of the sunspot over the span of about 5 minutes.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Special telescopes All of the filters above will show the sun’s surface and any large features such as sunspots and the curve of the moon blocking the sun inch by inch.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • That means more sunspots and more frequent intense solar storms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2024
  • But this is no sepia print: Purples, blues, and reds soak the canvas; circles pulse woozily in the background like sunspots.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The solar storm's origin is connected to a cluster of sunspots on the sun's surface.
    — John Helton, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • These rays cause sunburn and early signs of aging, like wrinkles and sunspots.
    — Rena Goldman, Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The cycle’s sunspot maximum was the lowest since the opening decade of the 20th century.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The previous day, Lucy had located a sunspot on the carpet in the bedroom and dragged her throbbing body to the center of it.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • And a couple of studies found that racing pigeons were slower to find their way home on days with lots of sunspots.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Now forecasters have their eye on a cluster of sunspots responsible for the spectacular nationwide May 10 aurora display, which rotated back in view of the Earth.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024

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