How to Use sunspot in a Sentence

sunspot

noun
  • Want to be ready for the next giant sunspot event?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • When the flows reach the same speed, more sunspots are observed.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The hotel is filled with sunspots along the rocks to bake on for the day.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2024
  • There were new sunspots and rivulet lines over her face, like an aerial map.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Note the sunspots and cloudy smears in the lower half of the window at right.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • At that time Mercury will look somewhat like a small sunspot.
    — Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Meanwhile, a sunspot on the northern half of our star is bulking up.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • That means more sunspots and more frequent intense solar storms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2024
  • Some whale strandings may be due to solar storms and sunspots, a new study suggests.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
  • For dense, discrete sunspots, on the other hand, lasers are magic.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Cranes frame the dome’s silhouette, and a few sunspots dot the face of the rising sun.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Over the past week, three X-class flares have spurted off from two eruptive sunspot groups.
    — Matthew Cappucci and Joe Kunches, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There will also be safe solar viewing of sunspots and solar flares.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The surprise is that there were no sunspots recorded for several decades at this time.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some regions develop cool spots that glow a darker red than the rest of the orb—those are called sunspots.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Last year’s most dramatic storms were linked to bands of sunspots from the sun’s southern hemisphere.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • These sunspots do have the power to modify the climate on Earth.
    — Mark Maslin, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Over the past year and a half, the sun was quiet with barely a sunspot noticeable on its surface.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The recent flares came from a pair of sunspots, including a new one that emerged earlier this week.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • That's what creates the sunspots that appear in telescope images as dark patches.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Large, messy sunspots that mingle or merge are especially fertile sites for flare-ups.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
  • And a couple of studies found that racing pigeons were slower to find their way home on days with lots of sunspots.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The sunspot region that caused the coming storms is actually shifting to the back of the sun now.
    — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • As a result, the plasma in sunspots gives off less light and appears dark in the visible light image.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Astronomers observed sunspots with telescopes for the first time in 1610.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • This provided us with proper images of the sunspot that erupted over the weekend.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 June 2022
  • During the minimum, on the other hand, the sun may go for months without a single sunspot.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This changed toward the second half of the month, when large regions of sunspots rotated into view.
    — Ryan French, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The solar storm's origin is connected to a cluster of sunspots on the sun's surface.
    — John Helton, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • The hands have veins and sunspots and the faint wrinkles that gather around the wrists; the nails have cuticles, pale and precise.
    — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017

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