Sentence examples for bright plumes from inspiring English sources

Flags doubled as do-rags and sarongs, as handkerchiefs tucked into tight blue jean pockets and as bright plumes of patriotism to wave in the air.

From the atmosphere of a bruised and battered Jupiter arose tall, bright plumes that left broad, dark stains beneath them, providing a spectacular show for sky watchers around the world.

Named for Lady Mary Impey, the wife of the Chief Justice of Bengal in the late seventeen-hundreds, it had a stout, ungainly body swaddled in bright plumes as if for an audience with the maharaja.

The endemic forest-dwelling tocororo (Trogon temnurus, or Priotelus temnurus), which is similar in appearance to the Guatemalan quetzal, was designated the national bird of Cuba because its bright plumes of red, white, and blue correspond to the colours of the Cuban flag; the tocororo is reputed to survive only in the wild.

The most dramatic blast yet happened two weeks ago when a violent jet erupted from the comet's neck for several minutes, sending up a bright plume of debris at ten metres per second.

They home in on an enemy missile when it is still moving relatively slowly, is unlikely to be surrounded by decoys and is trailed by a hot and bright plume of rocket exhaust.

Because the skies were dark, the bright plume from the missile's first-stage rocket motor could be seen as far away as Arizona and Nevada.

This is the same region in which Kervella's 2009 finding of a bright plume, possibly containing carbon and nitrogen and extending at least six photospheric radii in the southwest direction of the star, is believed to exist.

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Intriguingly, another gynandromorph cardinal sighted briefly in 1969 had the opposite plumage, they note: the male's bright red plumes on the right, the drabber female feathers on the left.

In those bright cloud plumes, said Dr. Toon, "there's no rainfall, whereas the clouds surrounding the plume are raining.