How to Use magnetic pole in a Sentence

magnetic pole

noun
  • This means that the Sun's north and south magnetic poles switch places.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • During the peak, the sun’s magnetic poles flip, and more sunspots appear on its surface.
    — Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The show is best in an oval region that surrounds earth’s magnetic poles at high latitudes.
    — David Wolman, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The northern lights are best seen in high-latitude regions near the magnetic pole.
    — The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The researchers say that our northern magnetic pole is controlled by these two patches, or blobs.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In recent years, Earth’s shifting magnetic poles have been picking up the pace.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The magnetic poles always drift and have even switched completely many times in history.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The red and blue lines indicate the magnetic pole for that particular year.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2013
  • The character has a monologue near the end of the play in which those magnetic poles attract and repel each other.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
  • New cycles happen about every 11 years when the Sun flips its magnetic poles.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • When these ions and electrons slam into Earth’s atmosphere, they’re drawn to the north and south magnetic poles.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
  • At the peak of the solar cycle, the sun’s magnetic poles flip, causing the sun to transition from calm to active.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
  • In other words, the magnetic pole is buried inside the planet, somewhere between the cap and the equator.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • As the opening above the magnetic pole, or auroral oval, contracts, the swirling plasma speeds up and forms a vortex.
    — Mark Garlick, National Geographic, 20 July 2021
  • This means the sun has two magnetic poles, like the Earth—but every 11 years, these poles flip positions.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
  • The North means knowledge, which is the story’s glittering magnetic pole.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The planet ran coldest near the equator and hottest near the magnetic poles, where the auroras flared most intensely.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Earth’s magnetic poles are shifting, just not in the way that’s discussed in the podcast and TikTok videos.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 May 2023
  • The auroras typically create an oval over each of the magnetic poles.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • When the sun is at its quietest, with nary a sunspot, its magnetic field is strong and orderly, with a tidy magnetic pole at the star’s top and bottom.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The peak of activity – the solar maximum – occurs when the sun's north and south magnetic poles flip.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Lab setups are simple, with positive and negative magnetic poles that pull cells toward one end of a dish or the other.
    — Sara Reardon, Science | AAAS, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Like any magnet, Earth has a north and south magnetic pole, aligning roughly with the globe’s geographic poles.
    — Marissa Grunes, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2026
  • When this happens, the aurora forms two ovals in correlation with Earth's magnetic poles.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 16 May 2024
  • The phenomenon is caused by particles from the sun that enter the Earth’s atmosphere at its magnetic poles.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In this case, the change is associated with the northern magnetic pole shifting towards Siberia in recent years.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The bottom of the Nu’alolo lava stack formed when Earth’s field was upside down, with the north magnetic pole in Antarctica.
    — Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
  • When that happens, the north and south magnetic poles switch places with each other, releasing the energy that creates the solar maximum.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
  • While on a sledge excursion, the young Ross became the first European to locate the planet’s north magnetic pole.
    — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
  • This area, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, may be an early sign that Earth's magnetic poles could reverse.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024

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