How to Use outer space in a Sentence

outer space

noun
  • Is there life in outer space?
  • More people have been to outer space than to this depth of the ocean.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 19 June 2023
  • The changes may help the brain adapt to the weightlessness of outer space.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The Earth is struck by objects from outer space up to 50 times a day.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
  • Neil likens the feeling to that of pondering the vastness of outer space.
    Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The richest man in the world is going to outer space in his own rocket.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • All the while, the stories in those comic books stuck — and over the decades, his passion for outer space has, too.
    Elissa Miolene, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Back in 2020 it was revealed that the actor was planning to film a movie in outer space.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Not the facts, not the rights and the lefts, not the plots, which could take place in outer space or in hell or anywhere in between, but the feelings.
    Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Lovers of all things outer space will flip for this glowing stunt drone that looks like a retro UFO.
    Jessica Hartshorn and Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Tintin's adventures took him across the globe, from the US to Sydney and even outer space.
    Hannah Ryan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • And both seem to be taking place deep in the holler, somewhere near a swampland and in outer space all at once.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
  • In the film, Mescal plays Junior, a rural Midwestern farmer who gets the chance to live in outer space.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The list of watch brands with experience in outer space just got longer.
    Carol Besler, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Here's a look at the most dazzling images taken from outer space so far in 2024.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
  • This wouldn’t let our mock asteroid move with the freedom of one in outer space.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Tickets for this game will cost about as much as a seat on Jeff Bezos’s next trip to outer space.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The book features an outer space theme and a story about finding home.
    Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 8 June 2024
  • What better way to get the creative juices flowing than a standup on top of a mountain or in outer space?
    Jo Eyre, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse are finding love… up in outer space.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But that's far from all these billionaires have planned in outer space.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • Ever heard the theory that life came to Earth from outer space, hitching a ride on a comet?
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • William Shatner's trip to outer space left him with mixed emotions.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
  • To be more specific, by bringing the magic of outer space back down to earth.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Anyone who is jonesing to explore outer space will need a good backpack for the journey.
    Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The world’s biggest producer of iPhones is going to outer space.
    Jane Lanhee Lee, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Stephen Curry has come a long way since the curious case of the government plot from outer space.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In this way, the J.W.S.T. will be kept nearly as dark and as cold as outer space, to insure that distant signals aren’t washed out.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • And the nation which was the first to put both a satellite and a man in outer space has fallen far behind the rest of the world in technology.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The next two songs conjure journeys through outer space, one jarring and one wondrous.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

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