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.
1 The sky was powder blue and cloudless -not even a contrail .
2 Threads of the yellow contrail hung in the limbs of the trees.
3 Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail .
4 Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead.
5 A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them.
6 Like a contrail , an invisible finger writing in brilliant cloud, descending.
7 Glittering green energy streamed from her wounds and hung in a contrail behind her.
8 This one rides its winding thermal across the double track of a plane's contrail .
9 It was a broad bright ribbon, rainbow-wide, a cyanotic contrail .
10 A rocket exploded in his head, leaving a contrail of stars... and then nothing.
11 Overhead, a jet traced a white contrail across the sky at thirty-five thousand feet.
12 A plane left a long contrail in the sky.
13 Those that moved over the land had left a contrail of dead vegetation behind them.
14 Scientists call these " contrail cirrus"-high-altitudeclouds that can spread over hundreds of square miles.
15 It's loud and bright and leaves a contrail .
16 You can see its contrail over the ocean.
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