How to Use heat dome in a Sentence

heat dome

noun

• How long will this heat dome last?
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
• Some heat dome events can last for weeks at a time, but this one thankfully will not.
  — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026
• Despite the Garros heat dome, cold dread.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• The heat will be driven by the arrival of a strong area of high pressure, known as a heat dome.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 July 2026
• This year, like last year, had a record strength heat dome set up across the eastern United States.
  — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
• This week’s heat dome is caused by a stubborn ridge of high pressure that has trapped hot air over the West like a lid on a pot.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
• This is definitely an example of a heat dome.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
• But the bigger story is the widespread heat dome and the dangerous heat that follows.
  — Kansas City Star, 27 June 2026
• The recent stretch of sweltering spring days is thanks to a gigantic heat dome that is moving east slowly.
  — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2026
• The extreme conditions are driven by a heat dome, a high pressure weather system that can trap heat for days, even weeks.
  — Taylor Ward, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
• To make matters worse, air sinks in such heat domes and can warm even more due to something called adiabatic compression.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The extreme temperatures are being caused by a heat dome – an area of high pressure that acts like a lid, trapping hot air.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 30 June 2026
• By the way, a different heat dome brought record temperatures to Europe last week.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• The weather sprouts from a heat dome affecting millions of Americans this week.
  — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 30 June 2026
• Then, a slow-moving heat dome sizzled the East in early July, toppling records.
  — Ben Noll, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
• Florida, along with a large part of the United States, will be under a heat dome this weekend.
  — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 2 July 2026
• The largest heat dome on Earth will be right over the southwestern US this Friday.
  — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
• Swaths of Europe are baking under a heat dome, a vast area of stagnant high pressure that acts like a lid on a pot, trapping heat.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
• Though heat domes aren’t a new phenomenon, what is abnormal is the influence of climate change.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
• The expanding heat dome may also help usher some moisture into parts of the Rockies next week as winds shift out of the south.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
• The smoke is now streaming into the US thanks to a record-breaking heat dome parked over the central part of the country.
  — Dakota Smith, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
• The worsening heat over the coming days is caused by the large ridge of high pressure, which will eventually become a mega heat dome next week.
  — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
• The punishing temperatures are the result of a heat dome parked over the continent for the second time in two months.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
• The western heat dome expands into Texas, blocking cooler air and bringing a chance for record highs through the weekend.
  — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 18 Mar. 2026
• The latter two heat waves have been caused by a thick ridge of high pressure — dubbed a heat dome by the weather service — that has wielded influence for weeks.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
• The spiking temperatures will be caused by a large ridge of high pressure, which will eventually become a mega heat dome.
  — Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
• Leaders can see exactly which properties sit in a hurricane’s path, or which guests and staff might be hit by an expanding heat dome.
  — Marianna Kantor, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• This also squelches any storm activity, and heat domes can act like detour signs in the atmosphere, rerouting storms around them.
  — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
• The extreme weather sprouts from a heat dome affecting millions of Americans this week across the country.
  — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 30 June 2026
• It was triggered by a punishing summer heat dome that smothered more than 200 million people.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026