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Example sentences for "stratosphere"

Lexicographically close words:
stratified; stratifying; stratigraphic; stratigraphical; stratigraphy; stratum; stratus; straucht; straught; straung
  1. Some veered into one another's course and the stratosphere flashed high and wide with flame and terror.

  2. They put it on a mail speedster that arched high into the stratosphere and into black space itself in a vast segment of ellipse to drop into the hands of the Capitol's techs within a matter of minutes.

  3. He spent two years patrolling the stratosphere over the vast, white expanse of the Arctic Ocean.

  4. And they constantly expected to see a razor-winged jet fighter hurtling down from the stratosphere above them, its cannon sparkling the bright flame-color of death.

  5. As Hal Dane skimmed the ocean surface at a steady, rhythmic gait, his mind leaped ahead to future aircraft building that should utilize the knowledge that he had gained by his stratosphere explorations.

  6. Riding the normal airpath above the ocean at an average clip of round about a hundred and fifty miles the hour seemed safe and slow after that life-and-death race high up in that stratosphere layer above the earth.

  7. The rarefied state of stratosphere was as dangerously violent against the human-made air machine as it was to the human body.

  8. But today, he must ride the highest stratosphere if he were to really explore the vast speeding wind river that his other searchings had merely tapped.

  9. The stratosphere is free from clouds (except occasional dust clouds) and from strong vertical air currents, and its circulation appears to be more or less independent of that of the lower atmosphere.

  10. In middle latitudes the temperature of the stratosphere averages something like 68 deg.

  11. The stratosphere has been explored in widely scattered parts of the earth, and information concerning it is daily accumulating.

  12. But if saucers could laugh, they were probably zipping through the stratosphere chuckling to themselves, because there was no neat solution to this one.

  13. It once was believed that fallout from the stratosphere was distributed more or less evenly--though over long periods of time--over the surface of the earth.

  14. The detonation of the first thermonuclear device projected the problem of environmental contamination to the stratosphere and, literally, to every part of the earth.

  15. The present view is that fallout debris placed in the stratosphere remains in that hemisphere in which the explosion occurs.

  16. The observation seemed to support the theory that nuclear debris injected into the stratosphere was descending years later through a gap in the tropopause.

  17. This concept is based on an atmospheric circulation theory that air enters the stratosphere at the equator and descends again in temperate and polar latitudes each spring.

  18. They drew back, and there were four closely-spaced explosions of such violence that one raggedly mushroom-shaped cloud went into the stratosphere and one huge, ragged crater yawned where once churned ground had been.

  19. Agung on Bali in 1963, have raised the possibility that large-scale injection of dust into the stratosphere would reduce sunlight intensities and temperatures at the surface, while increasing the absorption of heat in the upper atmosphere.

  20. Additional amounts of NO are produced directly in the stratosphere by cosmic rays from the sun and interstellar sources.

  21. On the other hand, ozone is a critically important feature of the stratosphere from the standpoint of maintaining life on the earth.

  22. The heavier materials reaching the lower edge of the stratosphere will soon settle out, as did the Castle/Bravo fallout at Rongelap.

  23. And make no mistake about it; when we take off for the stratosphere we're going to encounter strange things.

  24. The surface of this stratosphere substance was slippery smooth.

  25. It seemed strange to them indeed that Kress should have come back to land on the roof of the two who had promised to follow him into the stratosphere if he didn't return.

  26. Some great composite thought which inspires the general dread of stratosphere denizens?

  27. I judge that the shell, or skin, of this stratosphere ship is composed of this substance, whose formula of construction is your secret.

  28. Once in the comfort of their cabin they doffed their stratosphere suits with all possible speed.

  29. Those six planes are aiming at us--at a spot in the stratosphere they can't see.

  30. Let's slide into our stratosphere suits and climb out.

  31. And so begin that hours-long vigil of quartering the stratosphere over the unmarked area which Jeter had set as a limit.

  32. They sought through the spinning stratosphere for their rescuers.

  33. Of course Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer were disappointed that Franz Kress had beaten them out in the race to be first into the stratosphere above fifty-five thousand feet.

  34. Lords of the Stratosphere A Complete Novelette By Arthur J.

  35. Far below the partners many things were falling: broken furnishings of mad dreamers' stratosphere laboratories, parts of strange machines, whirling, somersaulting things that had once been men.

  36. He had fulfilled his weekly obligation to society by manipulating meteorological instruments for forty-five minutes, high in the warm, upper stratosphere and worked off his pugnacity by knocking down a professional gym slugger.

  37. They had unbuttoned their high-altitude coats and their stratosphere helmets were resting on their knees.

  38. They have been summoned by the Stratosphere Control Board which has delegated to me the honor of making the announcement.

  39. The Stratosphere Control Board--and they had called in their representatives from the far corners of Earth to hear the memorable words of this aged man.

  40. He can never see beyond the stratosphere he rules so ably; and his position is supreme.

  41. From the roof of that building to the highest level of the stratosphere the air was cleared; no craft of the Service would venture to pierce the barrage of light and radio waves that hemmed that aerial shaft.

  42. Orders from the Stratosphere Control Board: You will proceed at once to New York.

  43. The first ships, I believe, were carried into the stratosphere and captured intact by the enemy.


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