How to Use stratus in a Sentence

stratus

noun

• Still, the stratus will be light and should burn off quickly.
  — Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com, 11 July 2017
• Most of the metro area is waking to heavy cloud cover early Thursday as marine stratus has pushed in from the coast.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2020
• Tom looks at 10 pages of class notes on cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds and starts to panic.
  — Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
• Even some drizzle occurred this morning from that thick layer of stratus near the coast.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• Instead, Tom should take a review day to make sure that cumulus and stratus are firmly in his brain.
  — Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
• Low stratus clouds shrouded parts of the Bay Area on Sunday morning but were expected to dissipate later in the day.
  — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
• Check out the clouds accompanying a strong jet stream over #idwx #mtwx #wywx and the view of coastal stratus and fog is showing up nicely on the morning imagery.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• And the damage fell disproportionately on the lower stratus — immigrants in Colorado who worked in the coal fields.
  — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Near dawn and dusk, refracted sunlight filtered through the stratus can create a kaleidoscope of color for a few minutes and add to the phenomenon.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
• That means cooler, moist breezes blowing off the Pacific Ocean toward land, pushing marine stratus clouds inland.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2021
• The region can expect sun and low stratus clouds in the afternoon and evening, along with onshore flows of west and northwest winds — all conspiring to help keep conditions relatively cool.
  — Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• The rising air and sinking air meet in the lower atmosphere to form a marine layer—typically low-altitude stratus clouds.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
• Cirrus and altocumulus clouds moved over Washington during sunrise while the storm’s stratus clouds and precipitation were west of the mountains.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Low clouds fall into four divisions: cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus.
  — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024