Sentence examples for a thin cloud from inspiring English sources

In the atmosphere, aureoles may frequently be observed when a thin cloud passes between the Sun or Moon and the observer.

Dozens of tractor-trailers were parked at the IFF loading dock the afternoon I visited, and a thin cloud of steam floated from a roof vent.

Atmospheric corona, set of one or more coloured rings that sometimes appear close to the Sun or Moon when they are viewed through a thin cloud composed of water droplets.

But nobody had actually seen rain on Titan until 2007 when Mate Adamkovics at the University of California and a few buddies spotted a thin cloud of methane snow that envelopes the entire moon.

We have Kim Stanley Robinson on the terrifying shifts of weather: "What had been a blazing plain was now shadowed and malign... the awesome become awful, and all in the few minutes it had taken for a thin cloud to form".

They entered the tower under cover of dark, scaled the rooftop crane at daybreak, exchanged a high five – and then waited around for the light to improve, so they could best record the views down over the tops of the building's closest neighbours: the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Centre, rising above a thin cloud cover.

Looking to my right I saw a silhouette begin to cut through a thinning cloud of smoke.

Even the weather seemed like an English summer — gauzy, hazy, often with a low lid of thin cloud filtering the sun.

Despite the thin cloud cover and a little humidity at the start, this was never, as some optimists would have it, a good toss to lose and Michael Clarke duly won it for Australia.

I left in the air a thin white cloud.

Parhelia occur when the Sun or Moon shines through a thin cirrus cloud composed of hexagonal ice crystals falling with their principal axes vertical, as opposed to the halo phenomenon that occurs when the principal axes are randomly arranged in a plane perpendicular to the Sun's or Moon's rays.