How to Use coronal in a Sentence

coronal

adjective
  • That refers to the coronal hole and a resulting high-speed solar stream.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • In fact, coronal mass ejections may be the rarest of these solar eruptions.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • It all got started with a hole in the Sun — a coronal hole, to be more precise.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Earth is directly in the path of two coronal mass ejections.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Solar flares and coronal holes on the sun spray streams of high-speed particles into space.
    Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The second type is a coronal hole, which releases high-speed streams of solar wind.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Nov. 2025
  • All three events launched fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Sometimes, our star will belch out intense streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections.
    Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2017
  • During the change, sometimes the wind can come out in big bursts, known as coronal mass ejections, or solar storms.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The strongest fields cause coronal discharges — brief bursts of visible light.
    Mike McKinnon, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The coronal holes are cooler and less dense relative to the plasma that surrounds them.
    Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The sun's poles are pockmarked with dark, constantly shifting coronal holes.
    NBC News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The sun’s poles are pockmarked with dark, constantly shifting coronal holes.
    Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The second, and less magnificent, cause is a coronal hole, which is the source of high-speed solar wind streams.
    Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes these flares blow whole chunks of the sun’s outer layers into space, in events called coronal mass ejections.
    New York Times, 28 May 2021
  • Auroras can be seen in the south when the sun spews a particularly large coronal mass.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • That’s because the chance of both a solar eclipse and a coronal ejection occurring in tandem are slight.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The largest explosions on the sun are called coronal mass ejections or CMEs.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Earth is currently being buffeted by a high-speed solar wind stream from a colossal coronal hole on the sun.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers have shown that making these changes can trigger coronal rain in simulations.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Solar winds and bubbles of coronal plasma emerge as bursts of brass, with little flares of light registering as sweeps of harp.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The dark patches, formally called coronal holes, are areas through which fast solar wind gushes out into space.
    Haley Chi-Sing | Fox News, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The coronal hole flare-ups are expected to continue through Wednesday.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Currently, a large coronal hole, or open region in the sun’s magnetic field, is facing the Earth.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike the smooth stream of fast coronal wind, the slow solar wind comes out of the sun in gusty blobs, which are visible in coronal images as bright rays.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And the data from Fields suggest that the slow wind is coming from coronal holes as well, but from smaller ones near the solar equator.
    Mike Wall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The astronauts will also look for dust lofted off the moon’s surface and silhouetted against the faint coronal light.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This has resulted in multiple solar flares and coronal mass ejections being released from our star.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Sep. 2022
  • During the flyby, three of the spacecraft's instruments all registered a pair of coronal mass ejections.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2021
  • The phenomenon includes solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can affect Earth at any time.
    Washington Post, 19 July 2021

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