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How to use the word surface in a Sentence?

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Historical parallels, unfortunately or happily, keep coming to the surface.

– Vasily Pavlov

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

But if it melts really quickly, which is probably going to happen because we have these late snows and now we’re right up against warm temperatures, then you get the water just rushing over the land and not taking time to charge the aquifers and just evaporating off the surface, then it seems counter intuitive, but less water will make it to the lake in that case.

– Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With Juice, we want to confirm there’s liquid water in these moons, confirm their heat sources. Other instruments will be able to remotely sense whether there’s organic material on the surface as well. And so it’s putting all of those ingredients together.

– Michele Dougherty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These very strong wind fields, very strong surface cyclones developing can contribute to heightened severe weather potential as those systems get farther east.

– Bill Bunting

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Submarines are one area where the United States retains unchallenged superiority over China, they are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces.

– Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces.

– Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve had this weird pause over the last three weeks where analysts haven’t been updating earnings estimates because of the banking turmoil. Those are undoubtedly going to come, there’s currently a false sense of security that things won’t change, but a lot of the data under the surface is probably pointing towards higher odds of recession. This is not a favorable starting point for stocks as we think about the next few months.

– Patrick Kaser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

– Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We found a new mechanism that solar-wind hydrogen can diffuse into the glass beads and thus identified a new water reservoir on the Moon, on the other hand, impact glass beads are distributed in the regolith globally on the Moon. Therefore, the impact glass beads can be replenished with water on the Moon’s surface and can sustain the lunar surface water cycle.

– Hejiu Hui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this case, because we were talking about essentially ingredients that go into latex paint, we would have been able to see a kind of white plume under the river surface.

– Michael Carroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these elevations, so, it’s not surprising that we’re not detecting any water ice at the surface. It is possible that all the glacier’s water ice has sublimated away by now. But there’s also a chance that some of it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.

– Pascal Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only a couple of the simulations matched the imagery, and the most likely scenario is that volcanic activity occurred on Venus’ surface during Magellan’s mission, while this is just one data point for an entire planet, it confirms there is modern geological activity.

– Scott Hensley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China’s missile force is really, in my opinion, the real reason that’s driving this decision, because surface ships right now are so vulnerable.

– Democrat Congressman Joe Courtney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about really having the type of stealth and the type of reach which the strategic environment requires, china’s missile force is really, in my opinion, the real reason that’s driving this decision, because surface ships right now are so vulnerable.

– Democrat Congressman Joe Courtney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The moisture and heat from the lake surface water are absorbed into the atmosphere by storm systems, and then fall back to the ground as snow in the winter.

– Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a seismogenic area. It’s a very large fault zone, but this is a larger earthquake than they’ve experienced any time in recent memory, the magnitude of shaking that is felt on the surface is both a function of the amount of energy released, the size of the earthquake, but also how far that energy is released below the surface. So if it is very close to the surface, if it is a shallow earthquake, then it can be very dangerous.

– Karl Lang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can test the water repellency of your jacket at home with a simple test: Spray a little bit of water on your jacket using a spray bottle, if it starts to soak in or spread on the front of your coat, it’s time to re-waterproof. If the water beads on the surface of your jacket, then the waterproofing on your jacket is fine for a while longer.

– Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Believe it or not, we might be able to start seeing surface features on the nearest exoplanets, instead of seeing them as pinpoints of light, we might be able to tell if they have continents, for example.

– Edward Balaban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Enough falls that you could snowshoe across it, if you were looking for skiing, though, you’d have to go into a crater or cliffside, where snow could build up on a sloped surface.

– Sylvain Piqueux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.

– Peter Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative.

– Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've never before seen a huge mass ejection of the surface of a star. We are left with something going on that we don't completely understand.

– Andrea Dupree

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By the time we fired our thrusters to leave the surface we were still plunging into the asteroid.

– Ron Ballouz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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