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vapour trail

noun

  1. a visible trail left by an aircraft flying at high altitude or through supercold air, caused by the deposition of water vapour in the engine exhaust as minute ice crystals Also calledcondensation trailcontrail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The lower trail split in two and a new object quickly accelerated towards the other vapour trail until they crossed and a bright orange flash lit up the sky.

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As It Was is a vapour trail of a song, silvery and airborne, as Harry Styles searches for meaning amidst break-ups and loneliness and personal turmoil.

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Mark Jefferies, 61, whose family runs Little Gransden airfield in Cambridgeshire, regularly creates vapour trail images.

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Kimmich will take deserved credit for his goal, less a bolt than a looped vapour trail from the blue.

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Hazard had reached the penalty spot then dispatched his shot into the corner of the net before Ryan Fredericks, a fifth panicked opponent to litter his vapour trail, could slide in and suffocate the attempt.

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