Sentence examples for dark ribbons from inspiring English sources

Prominences appear either as flame-coloured projections when the disk of the Sun is totally eclipsed or as dark ribbons (called filaments) when viewed through a spectroscope.

An intensity profile for a portion of the image (indicated with a circle) is plotted in which 3 dark ribbons are identified.

A Swedish solar telescope on the Canary Islands snapped the clearest pictures of the sun's surface with a new AO system, revealing dark ribbons of seething magnetic fields around sunspots.

John, whose chiseled face is defined by dark ribbons of cherub's curls, had been teaching English as a second language to Turkish immigrants and then started working as a medical and legal translator.

Pink ribbons are for breast cancer, dark blue ribbons are for colon cancer, and so on.

And yet, when we see the unfamiliar dark blue ribbon (colon cancer) or green ribbon (adrenal cancer), doesn't it invite the question and subsequent conversation?

"You see this line?" the archeologist said, indicating a dark ribbon about ten centimetres in width.

Her silver gray hair was neatly combed back and tied at the nape with a dark ribbon.

It had been so fickle, now finally we saw glimmers of bright blue patches above the long dark ribbon of a road ahead.

Set in and around a kind of protective sanatorium for problematic priests, it's gutsy, gutting political film-making, woven through with dark ribbon of acrid comedy.

First she jolts us with the heart-stopping black of Linda Lynch's 1999 pastel "Dark Ribbon Drawing"; then she ushers us into the vaporous grays of William Anastasi, Edda Renouf and Jill O'Bryan.