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How to use wormhole in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Wormhole means a hole burrowed by a worm. Example: “Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!”

Examples of wormhole by meaning

nounA hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

  • Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!1979, Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston, directed by Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, spoken by Commander Willard Decker...
  • I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.2001, Ron Wilkerson, “Red Sky”, in Martin Wood, director, Stargate SG-1, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda...

More sentences with wormhole

  • And Christopher Nolan is sending Matthew McConaughey through a wormhole in his new film, Interstellar.2014 June 12, Nicholas Barber, “Out of this world: are space operas making a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry space opera
  • If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.2010, Drew Wagar, Status Quo (Oolite Saga), Drew Wagar, →ISBN. From the entry hyperspace
  • The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.1994, Stephen Baxter, Ring, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry flitter
  • You expect me to believe that someone created a wormhole, and now conveniently has disassembled it?1993, Michael Piller, “Emissary”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Gul Jasad (Joel Swetow). From the entry conveniently
  • The wormhole is modeled by a thin sphercial shell accreting the superquintessence fluid, --- two different models are presented.2005, Mathematical Reviews, Part 1000, American Mathematical Society, page 11639. From the entry superquintessence
  • We investigate the propagation of the scalar waves in the Witten space-time called "bubble of nothing" and in its remarkable sub-manifold, the lorentzian Hawking wormhole.2016, Alain Bachelot, “Waves in the Witten Bubble of Nothing and the Hawking Wormhole”, in arXiv. From the entry lorentzian
  • Such matter could support cosmic wormholes.2011 June 16, “If wormholes existed, what would happen if you tried to push one end through the other?”, in reddit.com. From the entry superquintessence
  • I don't know if the future will have quettabit computer networks or rontometer-scale wormholes, but I'm pretty sure the large and small of it will be hella weird.2023 January 10, Adam Rogers, “Move over, megatons”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023. From the entry attosecond
  • I remembered discovering the wormhole of the ancestral uterus, the maternal hysterorrhexis that swallowed my brothers and uncles before their potentials registered, hundreds of generations never allowed to gel.2014, Reb Livingston, Bombyonder, Bitter Cherry Books, page 174. From the entry spoodge

Meaning of wormhole

  1. noun A hole burrowed by a worm.
  2. noun A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
  3. noun A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

Full definition of wormhole

Questions about wormhole in a sentence

How do you use wormhole in a sentence?
Wormhole is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!”
What is a short sentence with wormhole?
“Such matter could support cosmic wormholes.”
What does wormhole mean?
Wormhole means a hole burrowed by a worm.

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