Explore Contrail through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cloud. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Contrail meaning
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.
Synonyms of Contrail
Using Contrail
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: condensation trail, cloud.
- In the example corpus, contrail often appears in combinations such as: its contrail, the contrail.
Context around Contrail
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Contrail
- In this selection, "contrail" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, distinctive, seen, fluid and dissipates stand out and add context to how "contrail" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and its contrail seen below and contrail was fourth. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "contrail" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with contrail
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Juniper rolls out its Contrail SD-WAN cloud offering. (9 words)
It was the contrail fluid in the planes that actually brought the towers down. (14 words)
Contrail was fourth in the 13-horse pack for the majority of the race, but came from behind down the final stretch to end the year on a winning note. (30 words)
In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it,on Feb 4, 2023. (36 words)
Yet shills for the "official story" of "climate change" try to pass off pictures of air shows, pictures of sky writing, and pictures of normal contrails cropped so you don't see that the contrail dissipates! (36 words)
In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglass' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: "Air-to-air communications.. (34 words)
Yet shills for the "official story" of "climate change" try to pass off pictures of air shows, pictures of sky writing, and pictures of normal contrails cropped so you don't see that the contrail dissipates! (36 words)
Example sentences (6)
In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it,on Feb 4, 2023.
Contrail was fourth in the 13-horse pack for the majority of the race, but came from behind down the final stretch to end the year on a winning note.
It was the contrail fluid in the planes that actually brought the towers down.
Juniper rolls out its Contrail SD-WAN cloud offering.
Yet shills for the "official story" of "climate change" try to pass off pictures of air shows, pictures of sky writing, and pictures of normal contrails cropped so you don't see that the contrail dissipates!
In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglass' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: "Air-to-air communications..
Common combinations with contrail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: