How to Use jet stream in a Sentence

jet stream

noun
  • When the jet stream swings far to the north, air piles up and sinks.
    — William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
  • Swift jet streams sculpt and stretch the clouds into long bands.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • Climate change might be making the jet stream wavier.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The jet stream doesn’t flow in that direction.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Friday will have the strongest wind as the jet stream and cold front team up.
    — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This jet stream has been positioned in such a way for the last 3 weeks.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The jet stream that steers daily weather shifts a bit in the winter.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The current heat dome is taking shape in part because of the jet stream.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 18 June 2024
  • The fast-moving jet stream is causing lift at the surface.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This ties into some of our work on 'resonance’ of the jet stream.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • The jet stream and weather regimes are affected by many of these changes.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020
  • In the short term, the polar jet stream will be shaping the winter ahead.
    — Shuang-Ye Wu, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The map above shows some of the upper level jet stream features for this storm.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Normally, the jet stream locks the vortex in and keeps it there.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Normally, the jet stream locks the vortex in and keeps it there.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Blame the warmer-than-normal weather on the polar jet stream.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2019
  • When the difference is large, the jet stream sticks to a fairly straight path.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Now, the jet stream is about to smooth out and take a more level west-to-east path across the country.
    — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Every now and then, when the conditions are right, jet streams will push the cold air down.
    — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2018
  • At the same time, a large, slow-moving storm system is riding along that jet stream dip.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The reason for the storms today is due to a boundary and the jet stream parked right on top of us.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But just how fast was the jet stream blowing to push these planes up past the 800 mph mark?
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
  • When a straight-line jet stream blows in from the Pacific Ocean.
    — Vivian Manning-Schaffel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The jet stream is the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller coaster-like path.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The jet stream dip may overtake Britain and Ireland much of next week.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The jet stream is the river of air up in the atmosphere that steers weather around.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Notice that the smoke originates across the west and then gets pulled to the east due to the jet stream aloft.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The jet stream is the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller-coaster-like path.
    — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, a dip in the jet stream will scoop up the area of low pressure and carry it northeast.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Some researchers have theorized that climate change has made the jet stream more wavy.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026

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