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Significados de contrail em inglês

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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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Uso de contrail em inglês
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The sky was powder blue and cloudless -not even a contrail.
Foxglove Summer
2
Threads of the yellow contrail hung in the limbs of the trees.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
3
Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead.
Wild Storm
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A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them.
The Naked God
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Like a contrail, an invisible finger writing in brilliant cloud, descending.
Quantico
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Glittering green energy streamed from her wounds and hung in a contrail behind her.
Mob rules
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This one rides its winding thermal across the double track of a plane's contrail.
The Guardian
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It was a broad bright ribbon, rainbow-wide, a cyanotic contrail.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
10
A rocket exploded in his head, leaving a contrail of stars... and then nothing.
The Shining
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Overhead, a jet traced a white contrail across the sky at thirty-five thousand feet.
In the Tall Grass
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A plane left a long contrail in the sky.
Private Sector
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Those that moved over the land had left a contrail of dead vegetation behind them.
The Naked God
14
Scientists call these "contrail cirrus"-high-altitudeclouds that can spread over hundreds of square miles.
Wired
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It's loud and bright and leaves a contrail.
Wild Storm
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You can see its contrail over the ocean.
Year's best sf 15