How to Use nimbus in a Sentence

nimbus

noun

• Even as figs continue to pelt the ground, the first to fall have begun to rot and are enveloped in a nimbus of diaphanous white fungus.
  — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• Even as figs continue to pelt the ground, the first to fall have begun to rot and are enveloped in a nimbus of diaphanous white fungus.
  — Christian Ziegler, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• Her songs look at restless travels along with the details of everyday life, in roots-rock with a nimbus of psychedelia.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• In the mid-distance, a lone couple strolls under a nimbus of pink cherry blossoms.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
• The solar equation persists in later art as a halo, a nimbus of light representing the circle of the sun.
  — Robert E. Gordon, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• But a nimbus of noise accumulates around the simple-seeming chords.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
• In her angelic likeness of Nur, Ms. Lal neglects only the nimbus.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• The absent-minded genius with the shaggy nimbus of white hair, standing before a blackboard filled with equations.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• So restaurants trying to expand their borders are going to have to build some kind of nimbus of infrastructure to minimize the picnic-in-the-rain vibe.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 17 June 2020
• With her signature nimbus of mahogany-and-gray curls tied into an overhead bun, Brock Akil, 48, knows how to persevere.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
• Rather than the classic solitaire prong setting, Nuvola has a nimbus of pavé diamonds around the central stone, producing a balance of gold to stone in the circular design.
  — Jessica Bumpus, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• In any case, Ms. Morris continued with her writing life much as before, only wearing skirts, necklaces, a nimbus of graying hair and a perpetual smile.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• Julian Schnabel painted him looking both heroic and angry, surrounded by a lightning-blue nimbus.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• An image of melting glaciers in Greenland, found while perusing a PBS documentary, combines a watery sunset landscape with a swirling nimbus of orangey fingermarks on the surface.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
• A tale of an insular populace that doesn’t think twice before opening its arms to an international throng of strangers automatically acquires a near-utopian nimbus.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024