How to Use escape velocity in a Sentence

escape velocity

noun

• Like how rockets on Earth must do, Nyan Cat would have to reach the escape velocity of the Moon.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
• With escape velocity in mind, don’t let up on the throttle one bit.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
• Every now and then, though, a cocktail from the modern era achieves escape velocity and breaks through.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2022
• Younger kids can match pictures of celestial objects, and older kids and adults can learn facts about space, like the escape velocity of the earth.
  — Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2020
• How does a company like Spotify grow up over the last 10 years and achieve escape velocity?
  — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 5 Dec. 2017
• Some of the tonnage is due to the fuel needed to accelerate the ship from low Earth orbit to escape velocity, and this may not differ between Mars and closer sites, such as the moon.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
• The escape velocity is a measurment of how fast an object would have to travel to completely escape from the galaxy’s orbit.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
• To achieve Earth-escape velocity, a second firing will end about 53 minutes after liftoff, after which the spacecraft will be released on its journey to Mars.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020
• Many Americans began to hope that the country had enough escape velocity to exit its cycle of missteps and sickness.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Larger narratives would only destroy that apartness from the chain of events which gives them escape velocity.
  — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Soar higher, to twenty-two thousand miles above earth, to that sweet spot where escape velocity meshes with gravity.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• Lee spent much of his career trying to achieve escape velocity from the business that made him, writing books and movie scripts that never coalesced, pitching film projects that fizzled.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• Then on Thursday, the service hit the viral escape velocity that every new social platform searches for as some of the internet’s biggest names hopped on board.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2023
• In the late 18th century, the scientist John Michell pondered what would happen if a star were so massive, and its gravity so strong, that its escape velocity would be equivalent to the speed of light.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2015
• The ecstasy and g-force thrill of achieving escape velocity from drab beginnings.
  — Hillary Kelly, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• Using data from a number of very fast stars in the Andromeda Galaxy spotted by the William Herschel telescope, the researchers could calculate the escape velocity of the galaxy.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
• Secret was one of the last pop-up social networks to approach something resembling escape velocity.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2018
• Its shares achieved escape velocity earlier this week thanks to the Wuhan coronavirus contagion that’s going global.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2020
• The slow-moving early episodes expend a lot of fuel, building energy and narrative force until the show reaches escape velocity.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Electron will deliver the spacecraft into a 165 km orbit above Earth, where the rocket's high-energy Photon upper stage will perform a number of burns to raise the spacecraft's orbit and reach escape velocity.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• Your Tok’s ability to achieve escape velocity is directly proportional to your distance from your true self.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some followers of technical analysis maintain that retracing half of the S&P 500’s loss in value—a level not far off—would signify escape velocity for the market.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• In 2008, things like biofuels and even a lot of the solar industry and aspects of wind were simply not cost effective or technologically advanced enough to reach escape velocity.
  — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Once a fan fiction scenario gains enough momentum to achieve escape velocity, it is elevated into mainstream tabloids, which are rife with reports of Depp’s courtroom flirtations and epic witness-stand one-liners.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• To leave Earth’s gravitational pull behind, an object must travel 7 miles a second, our planet’s escape velocity.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2013

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024