[
US
/ˈstɹætəsˌfɪɹ/
]
[ UK /stɹˈætəsfˌiə/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈætəsfˌiə/ ]
NOUN
- the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere
How To Use stratosphere In A Sentence
- Manchester City have put themselves into a different stratosphere and a lot of players want to be part of that. Times, Sunday Times
- Vast clouds of volcanic dust were shot into the stratosphere and swept around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
- Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
- Only the stratosphere is dry enough and with a long enough residence time (a few years) for the small anthropogenic inputs to be important.
- Other times it was right on - the sunbursts that ended up coming from behind Derek's head as his band launched into the stratosphere.
- Rethinking reactive halogen budgets in the midlatitude lower stratosphere. Future changes in ozone in the Arctic
- I like to say his standards were in the stratosphere, which is of course where they belong, journalistically.
- These won't be the first manned balloon flights into the stratosphere, though. Times, Sunday Times
- It hadn't looked so big from the substratosphere in Alexander's ship, but down here close to the ground it was enormous. The Lani People
- In the last half of the twentieth century, the manufacture of chlorofluorocarbons for use as propellants in aerosol sprays and refrigerants has resulted in a slow mixing of these compounds with the stratosphere.