An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
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Examples for "contrail"
Examples for "contrail"
1The sky was powder blue and cloudless -not even a contrail.
2Threads of the yellow contrail hung in the limbs of the trees.
3Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail.
4Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead.
5A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them.
1A condensation trail arced suddenly into the sky, launched from one of the Iscan heavies.
2Condensation trails are a consequence of interaction between the exhaust gases from a plane's engines and the surrounding air.
3But in fact he was curious about condensation trails, those elongated streaks of cloud that form a wake behind high flying aircraft.
1It showed footage of a missile launch in desert-like terrain, leaving a vapour trail.
2In a time of darkness smoke stacks are soon lost, a vapour trail drifts in the dawn light.
3As it passed over the Grand Teton National Park, one alert tourist photo-graphed the incandescent fireball and its long vapour trail.
4But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere.
5Using her ball control, Var moved the pointer up alongside one of the satellites, pausing it on a lengthy vapour trail.
1He was still watching the vapor trail as the cab pulled away.
2A straight, narrow line pointed dead ahead: the vapor trail from Teela's flycycle.
3I swear she moves so fast she leaves a vapor trail most days.
4Its vapor trail spread, cold silver on a sky of slate.
5High above, a white vapor trail streaked a cloudless blue sky.
6A jet pulled a vapor trail, pink-gold in the dying light.
7But I think he's getting tired of trying to navigate through your vapor trail.
8It showed footage of a missile launch in desert-like terrain, leaving a vapor trail.
9It showed a weird, thin, forked vapor trail-butno airplane.
10Where the cloud bank met the infinity-horizon he searched for the mark of Teela's vapor trail.
11Then Lance charged off the starting pad and I couldn't see him through his vapor trail.
12The photo lab confirmed that the trail was definitely a vapor trail, not a freak cloud formation.
13I sniffed at her vapor trail and settled back into my chair, feeling like a total ninny.
14Or a vapor trail from a high-flying jet-seen a hundred times before by the observer-becomesa flying saucer.
15Seconds later he saw the vapor trail appear ahead of him, far down the eye of the horizontal hurricane.
16Heat walked through a vapor trail of Scotch as she and Rook followed him through a maze of desks.