How to Use interstellar in a Sentence

interstellar

adjective
  • The Guardians of the Galaxy have faced their fair share of interstellar threats over the years.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • By June 2020, the comet will be well past Jupiter and on its way back to interstellar space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
  • This, in his view, opens up quite a can of interstellar worms.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • At the edges of the heliosphere is where the solar wind meets the interstellar wind.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Yes, but the transport costs from interstellar space seem a bit high.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • New Horizons is on a course to interstellar space, much like the Voyager probes.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2020
  • Chris Hemsworth is back as the Norse god, this time in the midst of an interstellar identity crisis.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 19 May 2022
  • Sometimes the band sounds like a jazz trio on some sort of interstellar vision quest.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The record-setting spacecraft, which launched in 1977, is the first to edge into interstellar space.
    USA Today, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The cozy domed tents look like interstellar orbs placed throughout the landscape.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
  • The script seems to know it and soon settles into a kind of grim grandeur, each turn a building block to nothing less than the interstellar fate of the free world.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • March 28: The moon meets Mars The month ends with yet another interstellar hangout, this time between the moon and Mars.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Tens of thousands of suns can fit inside one of these interstellar clouds, the New York Times reports.
    Pete McBride, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
  • Or an interstellar academy for aliens to learn about the Earth.
    Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The crew of an interstellar ship battles a malevolent force in this sci-fi thriller.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The researchers say that the existence of these building blocks of RNA shows that the chemistry could take place in the interstellar medium.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • And in 1974, Dad used it to send an interstellar message to a clump of stars called the Great Cluster in the Hercules constellation.
    Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • And her path to fame was partially written in the same stars that birthed her interstellar being.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • And scientists brought home an interstellar tune from the road.
    María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The transition from our solar system to interstellar space, the researchers say, may take less than a day to cross.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Genzel and Ghez spent many years poking into the cosmic cloud of interstellar gas and dust at the very center of the galaxy, with the world’s largest telescopes.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
  • What if Borisov, as the interstellar visitor is known, represents the first example of a whole new way to make a comet?
    Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
  • More than four decades ago, traces of Ann Druyan blasted off our blue planet and toward interstellar space.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, it wasn't designed to go after an interstellar object at all.
    NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Mars rovers, the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond, and the Voyager spacecraft now in interstellar space.
    David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
  • With interstellar symbols such as the sun and the moon, the 77 pieces celebrate lightness, transformation and the vast beauty of the cosmos.
    Lindsay Talbot, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Objects in the asteroid belt and meteors don’t match it either—and nor does interstellar dust in our arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • Voyager 1 and 2, while still hurtling through interstellar space, are beginning to shut down.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 June 2022
  • It was put on a faster, shorter trajectory, which took it to interstellar space ahead of Voyager 2.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Although ’Oumuamua is an interstellar object and not from the Oort Cloud, the proposition still applies; one of these objects could sneak up on us, and the Earth would be defenseless.
    James Wray, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024

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