How to Use coronal mass ejection in a Sentence

coronal mass ejection

noun
  • One of those events is known as a coronal mass ejection.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The tachocline is where the seeds of solar flares and coronal mass ejections are thought to form.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • These massive events are called coronal mass ejections.
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Viewers can expect to see wisps, streams, and maybe even a large eruption called a coronal mass ejection.
    — Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • These particles emerge from a coronal mass ejection or a solar flare that bursts out from our nearest star.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That was caused by two coronal mass ejections resulting in a magnetic storm.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2025
  • But there’s also another kind of solar storm called a coronal mass ejection.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
  • What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection?
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
  • Compared to the solar wind, which is always blowing, coronal mass ejections are short-lived but extreme.
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • These solar storms take place when coronal mass ejections, or eruptions from the sun, send giant clouds of plasma into space.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The largest explosions on the sun are called coronal mass ejections or CMEs.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • This eruptive event reached the X-class level, and produced this stunning coronal mass ejection.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • However, in this instance, the coronal mass ejection was traveling away from us.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • France has studied coronal mass ejections but did not participate in this research.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Sometimes, the sun also shoots out huge amounts of plasma in what’s known as a coronal mass ejection, Brasher said.
    — Time, 13 July 2023
  • These storms are caused by coronal mass ejections associated with a recent solar flare from the sun.
    — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2024
  • These explosions include solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun's surface.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
  • At the cycle’s peak, solar outbursts such as coronal mass ejections occur as frequently as two or three times per day.
    — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • With enough energy, a solar flare can project material away from the sun — a coronal mass ejection.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system.
    — Becky Ferreira, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Known as coronal mass ejections, these solar storms can dump more than a billion tons of plasma into space at speeds that make the solar wind seem slow.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
  • For one thing, the sun was shooting off several coronal mass ejections, but none of them looked as though they were headed for Earth.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Following a solar flare or a coronal mass ejection, plasma from the Sun is propelled through space.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • These types of solar storms occur when eruptions from the sun, known as coronal mass ejections, hurl giant clouds of plasma into space.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • On top of a massive explosion, the outburst also released a coronal mass ejection.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The sun, during coronal mass ejections, emits particles that are carried outward by solar wind.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025
  • This phenomenon is known as a coronal mass ejection, called CME for short.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • Just about 17 hours later, the effects of that coronal mass ejection began to appear on Earth.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • As a result of that growth, the sunspot has created a coronal mass ejection (CME).
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 June 2022

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