How to Use nimbus in a Sentence

nimbus

noun
  • This is chili spaghetti, topped with a nimbus of fluffy, shredded cheddar.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the mid-distance, a lone couple strolls under a nimbus of pink cherry blossoms.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • But a nimbus of noise accumulates around the simple-seeming chords.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Even as figs continue to pelt the ground, the first to fall have begun to rot and are enveloped in a nimbus of diaphanous white fungus.
    — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
  • The solar equation persists in later art as a halo, a nimbus of light representing the circle of the sun.
    — Robert E. Gordon, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The absent-minded genius with the shaggy nimbus of white hair, standing before a blackboard filled with equations.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • So restaurants trying to expand their borders are going to have to build some kind of nimbus of infrastructure to minimize the picnic-in-the-rain vibe.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • Julian Schnabel painted him looking both heroic and angry, surrounded by a lightning-blue nimbus.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
  • With her signature nimbus of mahogany-and-gray curls tied into an overhead bun, Brock Akil, 48, knows how to persevere.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • Rather than the classic solitaire prong setting, Nuvola has a nimbus of pavé diamonds around the central stone, producing a balance of gold to stone in the circular design.
    — Jessica Bumpus, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • An image of melting glaciers in Greenland, found while perusing a PBS documentary, combines a watery sunset landscape with a swirling nimbus of orangey fingermarks on the surface.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019

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