aurora borealisin a sentence
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Places I will go one day
Egypt
Victoria Falls in Africa
Alaska to see the northern lights
Norway to see Aurora Borealis
Italy
Greece
Ireland
Galapagos Islands
Surviving† (source)
- High above, ribbons of colored light—the aurora borealis—pulsed along the ceiling.† (source)
- Who else could make the colors of the aurora borealis rise off my skin where he strokes my forearm?† (source)
- He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire.† (source)
- Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.† (source)
- I've heard about the aurora borealis, and I've often wondered whether it looked like this.† (source)
- In Louisville, it's said that if the bourbon is blended just right, a man can see the aurora borealis without leaving his front porch.† (source)
- That night the sky shimmered green and blue and red with aurora borealis.† (source)
- It was like the aurora borealis.† (source)
- And the Aurora Borealis was out.† (source)
- If like the curtains of the aurora borealis the walls of rooms would give even the illusion of lifting-if they would threaten to go up.† (source)
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- Out the windows, night had fallen, and the only light came from the aurora borealis overhead, washing everything in red and blue.† (source)
- Over the levee wall now, like an aurora borealis, the sky of New Orleans, across the river, was flickering gently.† (source)
- …they rolled out a sheet of honest-to-God ice on the floor and a bevy of "Nordic Nymphs" in silver gee-strings and silver brassieres came skating out on real skates to whirl and fandango and cavort and sway to the music under the housebroke aurora borealis with the skates flashing and the white knees flashing and white arms serpentining in the blue light, and the little twin, hard-soft columns of muscle and flesh up the backbones of the bare backs swaying and working in a beautiful…† (source)
- With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.† (source)
- Babbitt sighed, "I don't know how it strikes you hellions, but personally I like this busting loose for a change, and kicking over a couple of mountains and climbing up on the North Pole and waving the aurora borealis around."† (source)
- I tell ye that when they got here they'd be jommlin' and jostlin' one another that way that it 'ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when we'd be at one another from daylight to dark, an' tryin' to tie up our cuts by the aurora borealis."† (source)
- Crac, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of 1811 at the head of the poster.† (source)
- It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon, filling a cavern of sufficient extent to contain an ocean.† (source)
- Near midnight the sea suddenly resumed its usual hue, but behind us all the way to the horizon, the skies kept mirroring the whiteness of those waves and for a good while seemed imbued with the hazy glow of an aurora borealis.† (source)
- The mammoth grand-stand was clothed in flags, streamers, and rich tapestries, and packed with several acres of small-fry tributary kings, their suites, and the British aristocracy; with our own royal gang in the chief place, and each and every individual a flashing prism of gaudy silks and velvets—well, I never saw anything to begin with it but a fight between an Upper Mississippi sunset and the aurora borealis.† (source)
- (He stands at Cormack's corner, watching) BLOOM: Aurora borealis or a steel foundry?† (source)
- The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps.† (source)
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