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Example sentences for "coruscations"

Lexicographically close words:
corto; corum; corundum; coruscating; coruscation; corve; corvee; corvees; corves; corvette
  1. It remained thus for twenty minutes, when the coruscations from each arch met, and after a short but brilliant display of light, gradually died away.

  2. And these coruscations formed, on the surface of the molten ruby, literally the shape of a Rose, its leaves made distinct in their outlines by sparks of emerald and diamond and sapphire.

  3. Through the water tiny gleams of phosphorescence began to dart, sparkles and coruscations of pale incandescence.

  4. The driver touched the lever; a stream of coruscations flew from the ball down into the cylinder.

  5. Instantly the sparkling ball expanded, whirling with prodigious rapidity and sending a cascade of coruscations into the cylinder.

  6. Coruscations and glittering atoms drifted through it as though it drew them from the rays that bathed it.

  7. And this apparent nature of the substance of the columns or coruscations allies itself to what finally regards them; namely, their form.

  8. That this arch, or curved streak, with its feet east and west, sent forth no coruscations itself; but that the coruscations rose beneath it, and passed above it.

  9. In these columns or coruscations several particulars were to be remarked.

  10. The coruscations of the Aurora were very brilliant almost every evening of the first week, and were generally of the most variable kind.

  11. Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening, but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass.

  12. At this place the Aurora Borealis was extremely brilliant in the night, its coruscations darting, at times, over the whole sky, and assuming various prismatic tints, of which the violet and yellow were predominant.

  13. Its existence was first discovered by the coruscations of the comet of 1807.

  14. Further, while the body of the comet travels toward the sun, sometimes with a velocity nearly one-third of that of light, the tail sends forth coruscations in the opposite direction, with a much greater velocity.

  15. When the moon shone, halos, and occasionally paraselenae, were visible; and towards the close of the month the coruscations of the aurora were often very brilliant.

  16. Distinctly perceptible in it were those singular aurora-like coruscations which gave to the "tresses" of Charles V.

  17. But the coruscations in question pass as swiftly as a falling star.

  18. He blazed like a meteor for a moment; his coruscations dazzled the eyes of the beholder; but when he vanished, the impression which he had made was no where to be found.

  19. The coruscations of the aurora were more than usually vivid, and the snow gave forth that sharp, dry, crunching sound, under the heels of the men as they moved about, that denotes intense frost.

  20. The night had settled down, and now the whole sky was lit up with the vivid and beautiful coruscations of the Aurora Borealis--that magnificent meteor of the north which, in some measure, makes up to the inhabitants for the absence of the sun.

  21. His coruscations were not only glittering, but they often dazzled and confounded less ornate minds.

  22. Now he folds his arms upon his breast, utters some beautiful sentiment, relaxes them, recedes a step, and gives wing to the coruscations of his fancy, while a winning smile plays over his countenance.

  23. The night had settled down, and now the whole sky was lit up with the vivid and beautiful coruscations of the aurora borealis--that magnificent meteor of the North which, in some measure, makes up to the inhabitants for the absence of the sun.

  24. As he has said, it is a desperate night of driving sleet and swirling blackness, illuminated only with the malignant coruscations of lyddite bursting-charges.

  25. Two bright nebulae afterwards appeared beneath it: and about two o'clock it broke up into fragments, the coruscations becoming more frequent and irregular till it vanished entirely.

  26. And these coruscations formed, on the surface of the molten ruby, literally the shape of a rose, its leaves made distinct in their outlines by sparks of emerald and diamond and sapphire.

  27. Their coruscations were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early snows of December.

  28. The northern lights have been frequently gazed at with similar apprehensions, whole provinces having been thrown into consternation by the fantastic coruscations of these lambent meteors.

  29. The coruscations of the Aurora Borealis were very brilliant almost every evening of the first week and were generally of the most variable kind.

  30. Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass.

  31. At this place the Aurora Borealis was extremely brilliant in the night, its coruscations darting at times over the whole sky and assuming various prismatic tints of which the violet and yellow were predominant.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coruscations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.