How to Use gravity in a Sentence

gravity

noun

• The challenge is to not puncture the gravity of the story with the humor.
  — Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• At the start of the decade, the global M&A market seemed to defy gravity.
  — Marc Cooper, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Light bends around the gravity of the black hole, which creates the photon ring seen in the image.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• The first is gravity, which is always pulling the object — in our case, a reindeer — to the ground.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• The gravity of a commitment like this is not lost on any of us.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• The next speaker put a finer point on the gravity of the occasion.
  — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
• In this movie, Tokyo is cut off from the rest of the world by giant bubbles that defy gravity.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• In the absence of gravity, fluids shift toward the head.
  — Rachael Seidler, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• My limbs hang, pulled by the gravity of a far larger planet.
  — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
• Near the end of her speech, tears started to flow as the gravity of the moment hit her seemingly all at once.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• And so, even now, no one can say whether our laws of gravity need revision.
  — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• When these clouds collapse under their own gravity and form young stars, the water ends up in the disks around them.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• As a mentee of the late DJ Rashad, the producer understands the gravity of the label’s legacy.
  — Arielle Lana Lejarde, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
• The scenario might also tell us why gravity—which sculpts the universe on the largest scales—is so weak compared to the other forces.
  — Steve Nadis, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
• Mass and weight should not be confused—weight depends on the force of gravity, but an object’s mass does not change.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• This means that the pressure pushing the outer layer away from the core loses power against the gravity pulling it in.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• For many, summer fun means thrill rides rule that soar, swirl, and defy gravity.
  — Roxana Saberi, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• Due to the slow rate of change, the myth that old windows are thicker at the bottom due to centuries of gravity pulling on the slowly flowing glass is not true.
  — John Mauro, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• In the process, the algorithm can also account for gravity’s pull and, in viscous media, the effect the fluid has on the shape.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2023
• Such implants designed on Earth are imperfect due to the tug of gravity, Ondler says.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• The saccule and utricle, two chambers in the inner ear, detect the direction of gravity and help the body to balance.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• As a person ages, gravity pulls their skin downwards, which can create sagging on the face.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 27 Apr. 2023
• Though she’s been met with support, some in her network still don’t grasp the gravity of her disorder.
  — Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• Just as the moon pulls and pushes the tides around Earth’s oceans, Didymos’ gravity might play with its smaller companion.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2023
• Einstein had suggested gravity is the result of the warping of time and space, distorting the very fabric of the universe.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
• The system may be the center of the modern soccer universe, but stars like Kylian Mbappé exert a gravity of their own.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The event marked the global live debut of the record-breaking album, and Scott found a venue that reflected the gravity of the moment in Rome’s Circus Maximus.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
• Participants are bound only by the walls of a diorama and the law of gravity, plus three simple rules.
  — Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• The researchers suggest that the jetlets then produce waves that heat the corona and enable the plasma to escape the sun’s gravity and coalesce to form the solar wind.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
• During this whole time, the star will be puffing up, pushing its outer layer outwards —against the force of gravity that pulls it back.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 May 2024