PLANETS in a Sentence

Learn PLANETS 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.

44 example sentences for PLANETS, such as:

1. Pluto is the farthest planet in the solar system.
2. The planet Jupiter may have no solid surface at all.
3. Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse.
4. She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.
5. These chemicals could indicate the presence of water on the planet.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLANETS
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planet
 n.  a large body in space that moves round a star, especially round the sun
Classic Sentence:
1  Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
4  Like the planet Mercury surrounded by the lustre of sunset, her permanent brilliancy passed without much notice in the temporary glory of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
5  She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
9  I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
10  We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
11  I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 7
12  Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
13  The planet was, in fact, very near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted to it a horrible ruddy hue.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected large quantities of water-ice just below the surface of the planet.
17  The magnetosphere is the region of electrically charged particles that are trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
18  A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
19  A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.
20  Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.
21  The planet Jupiter radiates twice as much heat from inside as it receives from the Sun.
22  These chemicals could indicate the presence of water on the planet.
23  And although she was probably just an ordinary-looking kid, in my eyes she was the most beautiful child on the face of the planet.
24  Okay, a scientist reports the measurement of the temperature of a new discovered planet to be minus point eight degrees.
25  The total number of species on the planet appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.
26  The planet Jupiter may have no solid surface at all.
27  Pluto is the farthest planet in the solar system.
28  A fuzzy photo released Monday - taken from 1.2 million miles away - appears to show the planet as an elongated blob, not a round space rock.
29  The ozone layer shields the planet from damaging ultra-violet rays, which can cause skin cancer and eye cataracts, and has been recovering after a phase-out of damaging chemicals under the U.N.'s 1987 Montreal Protocol.
30  The new research reinforces that statement from Curiosity's vantage point, and adds the perspective of the Opportunity rover, which has found a different ancient habitable environment on another part of the planet.