How to Use solar wind in a Sentence

solar wind

noun
  • What is meant by solar storm and solar wind?
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This stream of plasma is called the solar wind.
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, waiting around for the solar winds to blow your way can be trying.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This stream of particles is known as the solar wind.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
  • One type of slow solar wind, called Alfvénic, has small-scale switchbacks.
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 14 July 2025
  • This tail can stretch millions of miles and always points away from the sun due to solar wind.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Its main mission was to study the solar wind and its evolution.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • This has led to the ejection of a high-speed stream of solar wind toward our planet.
    — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The blue ion tail appears to have kinks because of strong solar winds when it was photographed.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • These switchbacks are thought to help generate the slow solar wind.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The solar wind's been strong, Earth's magnetic field is primed.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • One theory is that water hitched a ride to the moon as protons in the solar wind.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The solar wind is a steady stream of energized particles that flow out from the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The wave of solar wind will also extend the reach of auroras.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 May 2024
  • Another type of wave the probe picked up in the solar wind is called a Langmuir wave.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The second type is a coronal hole, which releases high-speed streams of solar wind.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Earth is lucky to have a magnetic field that shields it from the solar wind, while Venus gets slammed by it.
    — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 May 2024
  • Sometimes the solar wind can be strengthened by explosions on the sun.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Flux ropes in the solar wind range from 3,000 to 6 million miles in width.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The solar wind ripples through the heavens, spilling electric-green light into the night.
    — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2025
  • This allows protons and electrons that make up the solar wind to stream out more readily.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The team found that even in the absence of the solar wind, the moon continued to create new water.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • At the edges of the heliosphere is where the solar wind meets the interstellar wind.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • The lunar surface has absorbed helium-3 from the solar wind for billions of years.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • At times, the spacecraft will both align to take measurements of the solar wind or magnetic field.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The tail comes thanks to the excessive solar wind that pummels the planet, which resides close to the sun.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The field creates a barrier that shields us from the powerful solar winds.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 14 July 2025
  • The field creates a barrier that shields us from the powerful solar winds.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Here on Earth, our thick atmosphere and magnetic field shield us from much of the solar wind.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Most of the time, Earth’s magnetic field can rebuff and deflect the solar wind.
    — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024

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