Example Sentences

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Kew expert Tuula Niskanen found two of the Scottish species, including Cortinarius aurae, which she named after her daughter, Aura.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2020

War banners rustled from cedar ceiling beams as aurae blew back and forth, keeping everyone’s plates full.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Just for a moment, one of the aurae became visible—an elfin girl in a white silk dress.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Crebrescunt optatae aurae, portusque patescit Iam propior, templumque apparet in arce Minervae618.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Compare Met VII 821-23 'uocibus ambiguis deceptam praebuit aurem / nescio quis nomenque aurae tam saepe uocatum / esse putat nymphae'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear