How to Use planet in a Sentence
planet
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The adorable Key deer are found in the Lower Keys and nowhere else on the planet.
—Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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The humans are about to re-take the planet from the apes by the end of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 May 2024
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The light is believed to be the glow from a bolt of lightning near the planet's north pole.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
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The Black Keys are among the most dynamic live rock and blues bands on the planet.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
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The friendship was growing as strong as the claw that helps save the planet!
—Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022
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At the end of the day, as ridiculous as the show can be, our goal in it is to land the plane on planet Earth.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2025
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Now, astronomers say the planet is doomed to meet a fiery fate.
—Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
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The Arctic has warmed more than the rest of the planet, and its ice cover has thinned and shrunk.
—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
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The move, the founder says, aligns with its mission to save the planet from climate change.
—Dana Givens, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
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Mushrooms are some of the strangest lifeforms on the planet.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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The truth is, Steve's one of the most talented people on the planet.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
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Apophis will strike this planet for at least 100 years.
—Corinne Purtill, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
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Our robots crawl all over the planet Mars and send back home movies.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
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All jokes aside, being a mom is the toughest job on the planet.
—Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 31 Mar. 2023
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Now, a trove of his artwork has left the ground—and the planet—and is flying toward the moon.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
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The irony is, Australia is one of the few places on the planet devoid of squirrels.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
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The disk looks for all the world like a miniature planet-forming disk.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Most of us would like to help our planet remain a healthy one.
—Rob Lewallen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Here's what to know about the 25-year-old singer with the gig most musicians on the planet would love to have.
—Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2024
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Shields smiled her way through as one of the most famous models on the planet.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
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And all the while, humans—and everything else living on the planet—pay the price.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
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The brief, horrific scenes of the Harkonnen home planet of Giedi Prime are some of the best in the film.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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Shiner: And the ones that struck our planet brought water.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
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Jupiter would be in the middle, with the three planets forming something like a long arc in the sky.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
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And as the climate warms, trees can also help slow down the manmade changes brought to the planet.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2024
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Limahuli is a refuge for some of the world’s rarest and most endangered plants, many found nowhere else on the planet.
—Jessica Flint, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
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From $160 for 4 bottles, five times per year Want a private taste of some of the best wine lists on the planet?
—Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
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In a show with some of the finest actors on the planet, Macfadyen still manages to stand out.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
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What's happening with the new race to the moon and other planets?
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2025
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When exactly the planet was warm and wet is still an open question.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
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