SOLAR in a Sentence

Learn SOLAR 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.

22 example sentences for SOLAR, such as:

1. There are nine planets in the solar system.
2. The solar cell can convert the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
3. Valles Marineris on Mars is the largest known canyon in the solar system.
4. The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
5. A few years ago a car fuelled by solar energy would have been inconceivable.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLAR
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solar
 a.  of or from the sun, or using the energy from the sun to produce electric power
Classic Sentence:
1  He burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore, unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral contrivances ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
2  Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with coloured glasses, through which to take sight of that solar fire.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
3  Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
4  That I could have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very last Sunday that ever was, seemed a combination of impossibilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
5  As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  A spokesman says that Russia believes a prototype spacecraft powered by solar sails has been lost because of a malfunction during its launch.
2  Some scientists believe that comets hold the most primitive materials in the solar system and that they played a role in shaping some of the planets.
3  China is cordoning off its own solar market to fend off international competition.
4  The first solar dynamic observatory is expected to be launched no earlier than August 2008.
5  Wind and solar are intermittent power sources - only producing electricity under certain optimum environmental conditions.
6  The comet it had met was itself a visitor from the outer limits of the solar system and the dust particle it shed, and which Stardust caught, have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
7  They hope to show that solar sails could replace traditional rockets and propel spacecraft to the stars.
8  Valles Marineris on Mars is the largest known canyon in the solar system.
9  The solar cell can convert the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
10  One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the eighth in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is one of the largest satellites in the solar system.
11  The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is ionized by solar radiation.
12  A few years ago a car fuelled by solar energy would have been inconceivable.
13  The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
14  He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy.
15  There are nine planets in the solar system.