How to Use comet in a Sentence

comet

noun

• The comet leaves behind a trail of debris on its orbital path.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
• That winning season was like a comet streaking across the sky – here and gone.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 July 2021
• The mega comet likely started its journey from this part of space about 3.7 trillion miles away from the sun.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
• Although the recent comet has dimmed, and there's no sign of a supernova, Venus shines very brightly.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• Larger pieces of the comet that cause unusually bright meteors are called fireballs.
  — NBC News, 15 July 2021
• Zola dips and swerves and wavers and spins with a punishing force akin to a vomit comet — with Zola dead center.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2021
• Meteor showers occur when Earth passes by a debris field left behind by those asteroids and comets.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
• As CafeAstrology reports, Chiron is a comet that's known as the wounded healer.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 12 July 2021
• The comet's particles are remnants from its periodic visits to the inner solar system, with some dating back centuries.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminid meteor shower doesn't originate from a comet, but from an asteroid.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024
• And when the comet is this close, there just isn't time for that.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• Every year, the Earth passes near the path of the comet.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• The comet was as bright as the North Star until Oct. 16.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
• But first, the largest comet of the years is approaching.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
• Think of it this way; if Arcturus and Venus are the ends of a coat-hanger, the comet is the hook.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The comet should appear for a couple of hours in the east, where the sun rises.
  — Jorge Garay, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2024
• In the movie, Earth finds itself in the path of a comet that’s big enough to destroy the planet.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• But, spoiler alert, in the Netflix flick, the comet hits the Earth — and destroys it.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• Skywatchers will have chances to glimpse the comet through most of the remainder of the month.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Bright planets, stars and even a comet may appear if the skies are clear.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The comet has a tail made up of dust and ice,which is typical of comets that pass by the sun.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
• That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• This may also need to be done when the comet is nearby?
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• On that day, the comet, which appears to be bright green, will be about 27 million miles away from the Earth.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 31 Jan. 2023
• Meech called it a Manx comet, after a breed of cat without a tail.
  — Byeric Hand, science.org, 5 Oct. 2022
• Devin Booker looked more like Haley's comet than a Sun in the first half.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Did any of this film’s stakeholders object to the comet hitting the Earth at the end?
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
• Just how visible the shower will be depend on the speed of the comet.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2022
• The Leonids come from debris from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• The plume has been pushed away by the sun's radiation, not unlike the tail of a comet.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025