How to Use solar flare in a Sentence

solar flare

noun
  • That shines like a solar flare.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That step was like a solar flare for podcasting.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The tachocline is where the seeds of solar flares and coronal mass ejections are thought to form.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • An artist's concept of the Sun emitting solar flares.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • October was an active month for solar flares.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Sunspots are darker, cooler regions on the sun that tend to produce solar flares.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The cause is a spate of solar flares on the sun after weeks of inactivity.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Further observations of solar flares will be required to shed light on this.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But during a strong solar flare, the lower layers become much more ionized than usual.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Astronomers focused on tiny magnetic loops above solar flare ribbons.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Further solar flares from these sunspot groups will remain visible to Earth for another week.
    — Ryan French, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • These loops can precede solar flares caused by the twisting and snapping of magnetic field lines and release a burst of energy.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2024
  • First, the crew will assess their ability to protect themselves from high radiation events like solar flares.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The precise origins of solar flares, however, have been secretive.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • On May 7, an M2-class solar flare heralded the arrival of an active sunspot.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • They are caused by magnetic storms that have been triggered by solar activity, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • To be clear, the findings do not immediately mean scientists can now predict solar flares hours in advance.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 June 2026
  • As the sun releases solar flares, plasma particles shoot toward Earth.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The sun emitted some of the most powerful solar flares this week, NASA announced.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The northern lights could be visible in parts of Massachusetts tonight due to several huge solar flares.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • That violent severing and rejoining kicks off a solar flare, a short burst of radiation from the sun's surface.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This force is responsible for sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    — Ryan French, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And rightfully so—just hours after Glaze’s remark, the sun unleashed an X-class solar flare, the most powerful type known.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This has been known for some time, but the details involved in magnetic reconnection and solar flares, however, still require some working out.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This peak features more solar events like coronal mass ejections and solar flares, which are largely responsible for creating the northern lights.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Northern light displays occur when a solar flare interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Northern light displays occur when a solar flare interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
    — ABC News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Northern light displays occur when a solar flare interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some solar flares can result in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – huge plumes of plasma blown off the sun's corona and into deep space.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026

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