How to Use contrail in a Sentence

contrail

noun

• The white streak in the sky shown in the video is an airplane contrail.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• It’s inspired by the contrails that planes leave in the sky.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 26 Sep. 2017
• The sky is clogged with contrails, the straight lines of the bombers, the circles and spirals of the fighters looping around them.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• Airplane traffic, of course, plays a key role in the impact of contrails.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2019
• There wasn’t a single cloud in the sky, not even a cirrus wisp or fading contrail.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 July 2024
• Colorado pitchers have a 6.57 ERA there, and home runs are leaving contrails in the mile-high sky.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 20 July 2019
• Instead of the rainbow contrail design, the triple stripe is made up of TIE fighters, a fun touch.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The snow hissed violently off the bottoms of my skis to form blue contrails.
  — Tim Neville, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2016
• The rocket is barely a speck in the sky now, with an arcing contrail and still-bright engine exhaust.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• When that puff of blue smoke eventually becomes a steady stream — like a contrail from an F16 —that’ll be your cue that the end is nigh for the Ion, Jesse.
  — courant.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• When that puff of blue smoke eventually becomes a steady stream — like a contrail from an F16 — that’ll be your cue that the end is nigh for the Ion, Jesse.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• If the weather is favorable, viewers in the mid-Atlantic may be able to see the rocket and its contrail, or the tail from the rocket launch.
  — Nick Siano, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
• The test flights did burn through 2 percent more fuel by avoiding contrails.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 9 Aug. 2023
• The contrail will be brief but brilliant, featuring colors ranging from bright white to aqua to a bit of pink.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Better yet, anyone with binoculars may be able to see a small, v-shaped contrail from the rocket.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2020
• One issue is that just 10 percent of flights create contrails.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2019
• The launch was visible to reporters on the ground, with the rocket streaking across the almost cloudless Texas sky with a blooming contrail.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 July 2021
• How does a plane generate a contrail that in turn becomes a climate trigger?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2020
• The story also found that flights that avoided contrails burned 2% more jet fuel on their journey.
  — Emily Price, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
• Another SpaceX launch a couple of weeks earlier had caused a stir with its eye-catching streak of light and contrail.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• All were during the day and roughly half used the contrail avoiding software to adjust altitude, while half did not.
  — Kyle Arnold, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• After the show, reader J emailed me a picture, taken last month, of a jet contrail that could’ve been mistaken for a missile, too.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2010
• Tear-gas cannisters soared above us, the contrails spidering toward the earth.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Meyers’s lines grew icy and severe, distant and distinct, a contrail mingling with the cirrus clouds.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• These voters want safe jobs, protection from imports and the restoration of a Britain that vanished in the contrails of the global economy.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• These voters want safe jobs, protection from imports, and the restoration of a Britain that vanished in the contrails of the global economy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• Each new settlement drags a contrail of roads and water lines and restrictions across routes that used to be open to Palestinians.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
• If there are no contrails or clouds surrounding it, the plane is moving against a completely uniform blue sky.
  — Sara Nelson, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• The company says the rocket will leave the pad a few seconds before 7:13 a.m. People in San Diego County should look to the west-northwest for the contrail, which could shine in the morning sunlight.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Private jets, already heavily scrutinized for high carbon emissions, represent a big part of the contrail problem.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024