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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
        1
        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
        4
        Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead.
        Wild Storm
        5
        A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them.
        The Naked God
        6
        Like a contrail, an invisible finger writing in brilliant cloud, descending.
        Quantico
        7
        Glittering green energy streamed from her wounds and hung in a contrail behind her.
        Mob rules
        8
        This one rides its winding thermal across the double track of a plane's contrail.
        The Guardian
        9
        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
        11
        Overhead, a jet traced a white contrail across the sky at thirty-five thousand feet.
        In the Tall Grass
        12
        A plane left a long contrail in the sky.
        Private Sector
        13
        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
        15
        It's loud and bright and leaves a contrail.
        Wild Storm
        16
        You can see its contrail over the ocean.
        Year's best sf 15