ORBIT in a Sentence

Learn ORBIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for ORBIT, such as:

1. Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
2. The space rocket was launched and went into orbit.
3. Mars and Earth have orbits which change with time.
4. The teacher is showing how the moon to orbit the earth.
5. Giles would keep his orbit so long as she weighted him to the earth.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORBIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
orbit
 n.  path; circle; move in an orbit; encircle
Classic Sentence:
1  Giles would keep his orbit so long as she weighted him to the earth.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  His eyes were hollow, and so sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in their orbits.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  A successful launch will make India the third Asian nation to place a satellite in lunar orbit.
2  One Japanese company is already taking advance bookings for visits to a space resort that's meant to orbit the earth.
3  Telescopes across the world, and in Earth orbit, will be watching the giant spray of debris thrown out by the impact.
4  When the moon in its orbit is farthest away from the earth, it is at its apogee.
5  With Vista at opposition, the asteroid is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
6  The teacher is showing how the moon to orbit the earth.
7  Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.
8  Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
9  On this mission the Shuttle will orbit at a height of several hundred miles.
10  The space rocket was launched and went into orbit.
11  A string of 13 dwarf galaxies in orbit around the massive galaxy Andromeda are not behaving as they should.
12  What resulted was system of planets orbiting in elliptical, not circular, orbits described by three laws.
13  After students understood something about cometary orbits, they could draw conclusions about why we see a given comet only once over a period of many years.
14  Mars and Earth have orbits which change with time.
15  Does centripetal force or the force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface?.