How to Use atmospheric in a Sentence

atmospheric

adjective
  • That heat drives the atmospheric winds hundreds of miles an hour.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2026
  • This atmospheric touch makes any room feel homey and peaceful.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2024
  • All the inns are atmospheric and most are over 100 years old.
    — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2021
  • But the time frame for action to slow the growth of atmospheric carbon is long.
    — William Levin, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Now the same areas are being hit hard again by a third atmospheric river in just one week’s time.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Both would involve a long series of storms fueled by atmospheric rivers over the course of a month.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
  • His new and atmospheric office is barely a 10-minute walk from his home.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Here, the atmospheric pressure, or , is at its lowest.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The Intel version even comes in the same luxe, atmospheric blue.
    — PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The good news is atmospheric drag will likely bring most of the debris down within a matter of months to a year.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 June 2026
  • Guests then strolled back to the villa for a cocktail hour with food stations set against its atmospheric facade.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The floor-to-ceiling windows and stone fireplace only up the ante on the atmospheric mood.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
  • On the soundtrack, atmospheric music adds to the doom and gloom of the narrative.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Cook said the bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — has weakened.
    — Carolyn Thompson, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Cook said the bomb cyclone -- when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm -- has weakened.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The atmospheric river that drenched the West Coast last week killed at least five people.
    — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The heat that triggered this event was caused by an atmospheric river, or a long moisture plume that pulls warm air from the tropics.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
  • It could be repurposed to heat atmospheric moisture in storms.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Though the restaurant is already atmospheric, all the stars’ photos on the wall had to be swapped out for images that were cleared.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The buildup of atmospheric friction quickly slowed the speeding ship.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • That dry spell could come to an end this week if an atmospheric river hitting the West Coast swoops south.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2022
  • This is because of the atmospheric conditions during this time of year.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There aren’t songs with Chino screaming like a banshee, nor are there any overindulging atmospheric tracks.
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The strong atmospheric currents of the polar jet stream also play a role in the region's weather.
    — Samuel Granados, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This is actually the third atmospheric river to batter the state in the past week.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • His answer lost her a bet about whether the average stranger at the bar would know anything about atmospheric chemistry.
    — John Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • But on Venus, the atmospheric pressure is about 93 times that of Earth.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 24 May 2023
  • Goldman keeps things moving at a quick clip to augment the film’s atmospheric pull and tighten the tension.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
  • That accounts for about half of the rise in atmospheric methane in 2020.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022
  • However, just the right atmospheric conditions were in place for the clap to travel far.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021

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