Example Sentences

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Who needs Parthenon or Birth of Venus when blue lights swirl low, pink coronas kiss clouds, neon greens arc, deep reds stripe across stars.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2023

To do this, my colleagues and I sent biologically identical protein coronas to 17 different labs in the U.S. for analysis.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2023

It was jacaranda season when I moved to the city, and simply to catch sight of those trees, with their lavender coronas, feels akin to coming home.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2022

Dresses came in truncated, tented taffeta beneath coronas of quivering leaf hats and as silver-embroidered lace tank gowns under slouchy matching cardigans, as easy as a nightgown and robe.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2018

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver