How to Use stationary front in a Sentence

stationary front

noun

• The focus for these storm clusters will be a stationary front lying south of the metro area.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• That stationary front should get bumped north again into Tuesday.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• This stationary front separated the warm, Gulf air mass from a slightly cooler and drier air mass over land.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• Gentle but persistent and deep winds from the east-southeast were lifted over the stationary front, triggering the eruption of the storm complex on the northwestern side of the front.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• Some heavier rain may be near a stationary front, which is an area of converging winds that often promotes more rainfall.
  — Jackson Dill and Judson Jones, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
• Exact timing and location of rain depends on just how a quasi-stationary front drapes itself through the region.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• Instigating the flooding was a stationary front draped across the metro region, which acted as train tracks for heavy thunderstorm cells to ride along.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• This flooding event was caused by the interaction of Ida’s deep tropical moisture and a stationary front draped across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Rain chances will be increasing again Monday and Tuesday, as a stationary front lingers in our vicinity.
  — Dallas News, 5 July 2020
• An easterly flow off the Atlantic Ocean will interact with a stationary front to cause cloudy skies and cooler temperatures on Monday with highs in the low 60s.
  — courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• High pressure will remain in control for most of the state Saturday, but a stationary front will cause thickening clouds in eastern areas along with the chance for a few late-day showers.
  — courant.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Cooler and wetter times are here, more or less, with a somewhat stationary front draped across the region, along with an upper-level low pressure system trying to hang out to our west for a spell.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• An evening shower remains possible, especially south of town where the cold front has turned into a stationary front — stalling out.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• With a stationary front lingering to the north, another round of showers and storms is likely late afternoon into evening.
  — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 16 June 2019
• The stationary front causing all this trouble will dissipate Wednesday evening.
  — Adam Klotz, Fox News, 18 May 2021
• It was characterized by an area of low pressure moving northeast along a stationary front across eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• Fred, along with a nearly stationary front, should be causing some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm, but the circulation will be gone or nearly so, thus there isn’t any concern about winds.
  — courant.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Discussion As of Thursday afternoon, a stationary front draped across our region has lifted north.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
• That's the air wafting north into thunderstorms and being converted into heavy downpours along a stationary front.
  — Zach Rosenthal, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• Several quick-hitting systems will move along a stationary front draped across the region and bring an extended period of gloomy, chilly conditions.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• The stationary front could trigger a few afternoon and early evening showers and perhaps a weak thunderstorm, but there is only about a 40% chance for precipitation.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 July 2022
• Additionally, note the stationary front draped across Virginia, which focused the moist, low level winds into a convergent pattern over much of Virginia.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
• However, unlike Gamma, whose northward motion is currently being stunted by a stationary front, Invest-92 could have fewer obstacles to clear to be added to this year's very long list.
  — Gene Norman and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024