How to Use gravitation in a Sentence

gravitation

noun

• The gravitation of youth in Chile to the more distant left explains the rise of Boric.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• The sunlight’s intensity is less than half of Earth’s, and the gravitation pull is a third.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2021
• There is even, at times, a certain mischievous glee detectable in his gravitation toward the gothic, the grotesque and the creepy.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• With the law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton wedded the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2015
• Since the gravitation force is in the same direction as the displacement, the angle between these two is zero.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 July 2014
• Such quantities as the velocity of light, c, Newton’s constant of gravitation, G, and the mass of the electron, me, are assumed to be the same at all places and times in the universe.
  — John D. Barrow and John K. Webb, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2012
• This effect is caused due to a gravitation gradient across your body.
  — Kevin Pimbblet, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• As Feud implies, this may have influenced his gravitation to the swans, as well as his willingness to betray them.
  — Cady Lang, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• Taking the long way 'round, so to speak, capitalizes on the planet's gravitation pull in an effort to save fuel on the journey to Mercury.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2020
• Would that the answer wasn’t mostly a gravitation toward Wikipedia summaries of Jungian archetypes.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• What if the expansion rate and the effects of gravitation were less perfectly balanced?
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Then there are those that don't use a weird metric to separate gravitation from everything else.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
• The largest, most overdense regions of matter start to contract the fastest; gravitation is a game of runaway growth, and whichever regions have the greatest amounts of mass collapse the earliest.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Supermassive black holes, with a gravitation pull so strong that light can't escape, are present in most galaxies, the researchers said.
  — USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
• There is gravitation toward Bubba Watson, who has won the Travelers Championship three times and made the state a second home.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 29 Dec. 2021
• Members of Generation Z are known to be rebels, though the gravitation toward wired headphones goes beyond that.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
• Astronomers can see large bright suns, known as S-type stars, swooping in close, but Bakala thinks that older and dimmer objects such as neutron stars could, through a quirk of gravitation, make their presence known.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• Clearly the effect was from gravitation (the tides) not illumination (full moons/new moons).
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
• Instead it was discovered that light does not travel in absolutely straight lines, but bends slightly due to the Earth's gravitation.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
• The situation exposed the riskiness of Demna’s gravitation toward the most volatile parts of pop culture.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, Ravelomanana’s gravitation toward music was a constant.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The cluster’s enormous gravitation field acts as a lens, warping and magnifying the light from galaxies behind it that would otherwise be too faint and faraway to see.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• From there, Jenkins sought to strike a balance between the wife's gravitation toward old-world furnishings and the husband's preference for a more contemporary look and feel.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, House Beautiful, 4 May 2023
• The Bullet Cluster, a cluster of galaxies 3.7 billion light-years from Earth that provided the first evidence of dark matter, can be seen via gravitation lensing in this video.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Matt and Bri then bond over their mutual childhood gravitation towards friends with big families including a mom, a dad, and bunches of siblings.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• These abstract constructs have proved very powerful — in the theory of gravitation, for instance.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2020
• Such thinking has animated much of the enterprise of physics ever since Isaac Newton formulated his laws of universal gravitation in 1687: one set of laws for both the heavens and the earth.
  — Adam Frank, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
• None of those guys, of course, knew very much of our modern understanding of cosmology, gravitation, and quantum mechanics.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2011
• Legend has it that Isaac Newton first conceived of the concept of universal gravitation after an apple fell on his head, though the infamous piece of fruit may have actually just landed on the ground nearby.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2022
• That universal law of gravitation worked pretty well for predicting the motion of planets as well as objects on Earth — and it's still used, for example, when making the calculations for a rocket launch.
  — NBC News, 3 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024