How to use orbit in a sentence

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• There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.From the entry near
• There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.From the entry fact
• The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.From the entry attraction
• Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.From the entry tour de force
• I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!From the entry stasis
• There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.From the entry literally
• The radius of the photon sphere is also the lower bound for any stable orbit.From the entry photon sphere
• The Sun doesn't orbit the Earth—quite the reverse, in fact.From the entry reverse
• Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.From the entry tanker
• The spaceship needs to turn around so its retrofire rockets slow it down and put it in a lower orbit.From the entry retrofire
• The planet's orbit is aspidally aligned with the dust disk.From the entry apsidally
• The duodecennial Chinese zodiac originated from Chinese and Indian observations of the duodecennial cycle of the Jovian orbit.From the entry duodecennial
• Real-time photographic data from orbiting satellites could permit geosurveillance.From the entry geosurveillance
• From the point of view of earth-based observatories, the effect of the planet's orbit around the star is that the star observably wobbles.From the entry observably
• If a group acts on itself through conjugation, then its orbits are its conjugacy classes and its stabilizer subgroups are its centralizers.From the entry conjugacy class
• Scattered disc objects typically have highly eccentric orbits which can be inclined up to 40° relative to the orbital plane of the inner solar system.From the entry scattered disc object
• As the planet orbits the star, it causes a wobble in the star's motion, which can be detected as a small but observably large Doppler effect.From the entry observably
• A normal basis is generated by the repeated action of the Frobenius endomorphism on a suitable element β; it is the orbit of β for that endomorphism.From the entry normal basis
• This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit.2025 May 12, Jeff Edwards, “Rods from God: Unleashing Orbital Kinetic Bombardment as a Theoretical Defense System”, in Mira Safety. From the entry tungsten
• Anycat who's anycat knows who Buck Meowser is—the first cat to ever orbit Earth.2025 June, Previews, number 441, page 223. From the entry anycat
• Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN. From the entry telescope
• One day after the Hope maneuver, a Chinese spacecraft, Tianwen-1, is to also enter orbit around Mars.2021 February 9, Kenneth Chang, “Mars Mission From the U.A.E. Begins Orbit of Red Planet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry orbiter
• If the initial orbit is hyperbolic, lithobraking would properly be termed lithocapture.2020, Jonathan C. McDowell, “Astronautical Glossary”, in Jonathan's Space Report, retrieved 21 Feb 2021. From the entry lithocapture
• A new image reminds us of what the orbiting observatory has let us see.2020 April 24, Dennis Overbye, “Hubble Marks 30 Years of Seeing a Universe Being Born and Dying”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry let us see
• During Cytherocentric orbit insertion, Akatsuki malfunctioned and failed to enter orbit.2019, Kattakuri, Vikranth R., Failures in Spacecraft Systems: An Analysis from the Perspective of Decision Making, West Lafayette…. From the entry cytherocentric
• Two “Guidos” were to be on the console for launch phase and two for orbit phase.2018, Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried, Apollo Mission Control (page 255). From the entry guido
• We're going home to Earth!” “Current location: orbiting the moon of Sol III, also known as Earth.”2017, Marc Baumgartner, Inheritance of Stars: New Worlds, tredition, page 388. From the entry Sol III
• Two of Saturn's small moons have the unique distinction of sharing the same orbit.2016, Michael [W.] Carroll, “Ice Dwarfs and Tiny Moons”, in Picture This!: Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space, Cham, Switzerland…. From the entry Janus

Meaning of orbit

1. noun An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
2. noun One complete circuit round an orbited body.
3. noun The state of moving in an orbit.

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Questions about orbit in a sentence

How do you use orbit in a sentence?

Orbit is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.”

What is a short sentence with orbit?

“The Earth orbits the Sun.”

What does orbit mean?

Orbit means an elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.