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
  • The storm then creates solar flares which cause the northern lights to put on a show for us here on earth.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There will also be safe solar viewing of sunspots and solar flares.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • An artist's concept of the Sun emitting solar flares.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The sun also released bright flashes of light, called solar flares.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean that this solar flare is completely harmless.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The solar flare was an X-class solar flare, which is the largest the sun can produce.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This might also be a likely time for another big solar flare to strike.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
  • October was an active month for solar flares.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • By the time the solar flare went off, the spot was facing the direction of Earth.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Sunspots are darker, cooler regions on the sun that tend to produce solar flares.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And that’s all without the solar flare reaching the peak of its 11-year cycle.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The effect of a dark matter asteroid is very close to that of a standard solar flare.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022
  • During this time, our star sends out solar flares at its most frequent rate, and solar flares can cause trouble.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
  • The cause is a spate of solar flares on the sun after weeks of inactivity.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That solar flare produced the largest and fastest rise in carbon-14 ever recorded.
    — David Wallace, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Particles from a solar flare can travel at the speed of light and reach Earth in minutes.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Particles from a solar flare can travel at the speed of light and reach Earth in minutes.
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 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
  • The sun has been emitting a series of strong solar flares since Wednesday morning.
    — Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 11 May 2024
  • Space Weather Live says that the flare was the most powerful solar flare in five years.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Further observations of solar flares will be required to shed light on this.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • How often solar flares occur is closely tied to the sun’s 11-year cycle.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection?
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
  • The colorful event is courtesy of a solar flare, which erupted out of a sunspot Monday.
    — Doyle Rice, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2020
  • But during a strong solar flare, the lower layers become much more ionized than usual.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The storm is due to a significant solar flare that happened on Thursday.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Due to the intense solar flares, the auroras could be visible in up to 17 states.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 29 May 2025

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