How to Use corona in a Sentence

corona

noun
  • The spacecraft dipped in and out of the corona at least three times.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Crown -- or corona, in Latin -- is where this virus gets its name.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • Solar winds from the sun’s corona are set to light up the skies this week.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • And there's still much more to learn about the corona, which is much hotter than the sun itself.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • The sun has gone behind the moon and the corona is still visible.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This is why scientists refer to the ring around black holes as a corona.
    — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In the era of of corona the ritual pleasures of spring can be tinged with dread.
    — Sunset Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
  • In fact, the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the sun's surface.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The sun does not generate its corona through one simple process.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That was during corona time, so that was stop and start, but exactly three years.
    — Vogue, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The unreal way the corona wafts around the moon in a thin flaming circle.
    — Joanne Spataro, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Why is the corona hundreds of times hotter than the surface below it?
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2026
  • Where and when the corona was captured The location was no fluke.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But the mix of elements in different parts of the corona isn't fixed.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
  • True to its name, the vaginal corona is like a crown, a ring inside the vaginal opening.
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Bands, rayed bands, horizontal arcs, rayed arcs, coronas, and more.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • During an eclipse, only the sun’s corona is visible to the naked eye.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 2 July 2019
  • The white halo was the sun's corona, and the dark circle was the moon's silhouette.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The faint plasma of the sun’s corona is visible, stretching across the sky.
    — Katie Peek, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Jackie was most impressed with how the Sun’s corona seemed to shift and ripple.
    — Deana L. Weibel, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Both were part of the team that watched seven years ago as the supermassive black hole's corona went dark.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The Sun’s corona is almost always blocked from view by the brighter disk of the Sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The probe flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft’s eighth close approach to the sun.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • All the people around me fell silent amid the cool, still air, and the corona of the sun radiated and wisped above.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
  • This was clear evidence of an active hot corona and a powerful jet.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Understanding the solar wind and the blazing heat of the corona are key.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The seasons changed, the kids grew up, some of the actors were afraid of traveling because of corona.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The sky darkens, stars come out as the blaze of the Sun's corona becomes visible.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Once again, the sun that sustains all of us will appear—first, its wispy corona and then the stunning brilliance of its disk.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The secret to this technique is to choose the right place—like the black hole's corona—to collect energy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021

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