How to Use gaseous in a Sentence

gaseous

adjective

• The broader threat is gaseous vog and ash — vog is the volcanic form of fog.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2018
• The waxing gibbous moon dances with the large, gaseous Jupiter on the evening of June 23 in the southeast.
  — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• The companion star is now about the size of a large gaseous planet, or 20 times the mass of Jupiter.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 July 2022
• What’s the deal with this gaseous planet shaped like a football?
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• The planets closer to the star are smaller and rocky, while the ones farther out are large and gaseous.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• Some of the debris fell onto the gaseous planet, but much of it fell toward the rings.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
• In 1995, the Galileo Probe descended into Jupiter’s gaseous body and took a whiff.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The region is home to a fiery, gaseous pit, which some believe to be the literal mouth of Hell.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• They've been teased out in the lab before, but only in gaseous states that quickly wore away.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2019
• The only space left above the mass should be enough to compensate for the expansion of the mass due to gaseous release.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Comas are the gaseous clouds that form around the nucleus as the comet's ices evaporate.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 July 2021
• See the waxing gibbous moon scoot by the gaseous Jupiter on June 23 as the planet sets in the western sky before dawn now.
  — Blaine P. Friedlander Jr., Washington Post, 2 June 2018
• In fact, in gaseous form at room temperature, atoms are buzzing around at over 1,000 mph.
  — Paul Lipman, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Look for the gaseous world less than five degrees east of the moon, fitting within a binocular field of view.
  — National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2016
• Then the eruption happened and, almost overnight, the gaseous factory seemed to turn off.
  — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2020
• With the exception of a rocky core, the planet is made of gaseous and liquid elements.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
• His every gaseous eruption is played over and over on cable news.
  — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Aug. 2017
• Scientists can then make some guesses as to whether the planet is rocky or gaseous.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• The gaseous Jupiter and Earth’s red neighbor Mars conjunct in the morning heavens this weekend.
  — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• The planet could be a rocky world larger than Earth, a gaseous mini-Neptune or even an ocean world.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• For gaseous macrocosmic poli-sci, people can turn to Aaron Sorkin.
  — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• One astronomer pointed out that Earth would encounter the comet’s gaseous tail, filled with toxic cyanogen gas.
  — Popular Science, 9 Dec. 2023
• Here, around one particular star on the Local Arm, eight planets formed around the sun — four rocky and four gaseous.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• The cold Neptune is similar in mass to the gaseous planet in our solar system.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• The gaseous refrigerant then flows to the system's outdoor coil, moving heat out of your home.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 June 2024
• Centrifuges are tall tubes that enrich a gaseous form of uranium.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Even at that size, the planets could still be solid rather than gaseous and have liquid water on or below the surface.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 June 2020
• Our analysis shows that PxP-4 may be a gaseous planet, akin to our Neptune, but smaller and warmer.
  — Daniel Apai, The Conversation, 9 Nov. 2020
• The wedge shape also allowed for the separation of the liquid water and bubbles of gaseous steam so the noodles could cook evenly.
  — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 18 July 2024
• Before the Starliner crew even reached the ISS, however, five of the spacecraft’s thrusters began misfiring, and the supply of a gaseous helium that keeps the thrusters pressurized sprang five leaks.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024