How to Use orbit in a Sentence

orbit

1 of 2 noun

• The reason there are leap days, and years, is because of the Earth's orbit.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• The moon goes through its monthly orbit around the Earth, while Venus orbits the sun.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• This idea works well with satellites in low-Earth orbit.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Once launched, the Falcon 9 rocket will send the satellites to low-Earth orbit.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Its orbit has been mapped and it isn't considered a threat.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• What would happen to the thousands of new satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO)?
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• The movement of the shadow across the land happens as the Earth's rotation interacts with the orbit of the moon.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
• For its part, the United States has tried to pull Vietnam out of Russia’s orbit.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Sadly, there are few people left in Musk’s orbit who can keep him in check.
  — Byzoë Schiffer, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• The space plane has spent the equivalent of 10 years in orbit over seven missions.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• The ones where all the parts swirl in a unique orbit, building upon each other and all of a sudden the whole thing is floating.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2023
• The Starship depot will linger in low-Earth orbit as tankers arrive one by one.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• As the stars orbit and their expanding winds sweep outward, the dust spirals out like the jet from a lawn sprinkler.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Most of the asteroids that the researchers identified are in the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, which is quite far from Earth.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Like most of the teenagers in her orbit, Lisa longs to be with someone who can relate to her disdain for the drudgery of everyday life.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• That happens because the moon moves around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• When the moon’s orbit brings it closer to Earth than usual, the cosmic combo is called a supermoon.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• The Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has also announced plans for a network in low-Earth orbit.
  — John Liu, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The summer solstice occurs when the Earth reaches the point in its orbit when the North Pole is at its maximum tilt of about 23.5 degrees toward the Sun.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• However, the moon wasn’t at that particular point in its orbit at that time.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• The Old Farmer's Almanac explains that the moon's orbit is nearly parallel to the Earth's eastern horizon around this time.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 16 June 2023
• The chaotic fall from orbit finally came to an end when the cargo pallet reentered on March 8 around 3:29 p.m.
  — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
• That means the Earth was a young 100 million years old when an object about the size of Mars slammed into it, slinging magma out into Earth’s orbit.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Yet space tourists are still lining up, ever since the first one rocketed into orbit in 2001 with the Russians.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Now, Russia has announced its intention to leave the space station by 2028 and build its own station in orbit.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• Like a satellite picking up speed in orbit, the worm zoomed into hyperspace.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• The rocket will then continue its course, with the spacecraft blasting about 100 million miles into orbit around the sun.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Hanwha aims to make the small launcher, which can loft about 3 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, more price competitive.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 May 2023
• In other words, dips in momentum will now happen within a steadier orbit.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Roughly 5,900 are still in orbit, but Starlink isn't legally available to everyone.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 1 May 2024

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orbit

2 of 2 verb

• The Moon orbits the Earth.
• The Moon orbits around the Earth.
• The satellites orbit at different heights.
• The first will dock with Haven-1 for up to 30 days while orbiting the Earth.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• The pair of asteroids orbits the sun and doesn’t pose any threat to our planet.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• The super-Earth Kepler-69c orbits its sun in a galaxy far, far away.
  — wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Axiom plans to launch the first section of its space station to orbit in 2025.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
• Quaoar is about 4 billion miles away from the sun and takes around 286 years to orbit it, and has a small moon called Weywot.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• The sensors now orbiting in space will then send data back to Earth in the coming months.
  — Julia Simon, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
• This mission is uncrewed, but the next will have people onboard to orbit the moon.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• Christie, in a gray wool suit and red floral tie, stood at the center of the room, slowly orbiting a wooden stool.
  — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Such a satellite happened to orbit the Earth at an altitude of 507 km.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• Across each one was a streak, the path of one of the 350 unknown objects currently orbiting Earth.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• That flight would include four crew members who would dock with the station for as many as 30 days while orbiting the Earth.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 12 May 2023
• Solar eclipses occur because, as the Earth is orbiting the sun, the moon is orbiting the Earth.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The goal is to find a safe and effective way to pare down the ever-growing field of space junk orbiting our planet.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• What do tens of thousands of orbiting satellites mean for our skies—and for the new space industry that will launch them?
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
• There’s one other Wilcox, Bering, whose absence is the black hole around which her parents and siblings orbit.
  — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Now, astronomers think the cratered chunk of ice orbiting Saturn has a deep secret: a hidden ocean.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• These space rocks orbit the sun at the same distance as Jupiter in two clusters: one cluster races ahead of the gas giant while the other trails behind the planet.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
• How do these two black holes come together to orbit each other and collide?
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• If those cases put Merchan in the public eye, the last two years trained a Trump-orbiting telescope on his courtroom.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Near-Earth objects are entities such as asteroids and comets that orbit the sun like the planets do.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 June 2023
• Because the moon orbits the Earth at an angle of about five degrees—rather than along a flat plane—the shadow is often cast above or below the moon’s orbit.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• Everything depends on the apparent size of the star and the planet’s orbiting body.
  — Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
• While many asteroids reside in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, Bennu orbits the sun closer to Earth.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Earth and Jupiter orbit the sun in very nearly the same plane, and Jupiter’s axis is tipped a mere three degrees from perpendicular.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
• Its two companion planets, which orbit farther out, are both rocky planets, so all three may have formed the same way.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2023
• But what would life on Earth really be like if our planet was orbited by two moons instead of one?
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• The moon orbits Earth at 2,288 mph — that is, traveling in one hour roughly the distance between San Diego and Philadelphia.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024