How to Use the stratosphere in a Sentence

the stratosphere

noun
  • Some of the notes are in the stratosphere.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That scene lifted the movie to the stratosphere.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The stock is free to roam to the stratosphere on the backs of the shorts who have had their borrows taken away.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Your cam blasts up and away into the stratosphere of attention.
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This event has lead to some record temperatures high in the stratosphere.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • So Roxxxy wins the lip-synch and sends the whole episode into the stratosphere.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • This single video launched both this dance and Twisters into the stratosphere.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
  • All those pet owners sent pet-store spending into the stratosphere.
    — Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • From hotel stays to a snack on the Strip, prices have moved into the stratosphere.
    — Michael Boyd, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Many people think that the best wines are priced somewhere in the stratosphere, and this is simply not true.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
  • All in all, the stage was set for luxury resale to boom into the stratosphere.
    — Leah Bourne, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In other words, there’s a slow rise, and then a break point where that line spirals up into the stratosphere.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • But her low-rise flares may just catapult the jeans further into the stratosphere.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
  • With most of the good land already gone, anything left is getting priced into the stratosphere.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 June 2024
  • That puts them in the stratosphere, the second layer of our atmosphere.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This sounds incredibly cool, but again, the costs go well beyond the stratosphere.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Bruce Lee was popular before this film, but this is what sent him into the stratosphere.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The troposphere is noisy and chaotic, while the stratosphere above it is calmer and more stratified.
    — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Most will reach heights of 15 to 19 miles above the earth’s surface, flying in an area known as the stratosphere.
    — Magdalena Petrova, CNBC, 13 July 2024
  • Fans watched on a stream as the Starship soared through the stratosphere, further than the past few missions had managed.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
  • The volcano increased the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by 5 percent, one study found.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • In a major eruption, millions of tons of sulfur dioxide get thrown up into the stratosphere.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Despite its looming consequences, the crisis has yet to raise oil and gas prices into the stratosphere.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • In May, the Zephyr achieved a new record, maintaining 67 days of flight in the stratosphere.
    — PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Is Jeff Bezos ready to get up in the stratosphere in a Blue Origin craft.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • After a volcanic eruption, reflective droplets fall out of the stratosphere within a few years.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Fuel costs are up, airline ticket prices have left the stratosphere, and even finding a seat on a train is a challenge lately.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 12 July 2022
  • Some investors say that trend could happen again with Big Tech firms whose stocks have soared into the stratosphere this year.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 July 2023

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