orbit
Example Sentences
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Once it arrives, the spacecraft will orbit Psyche at several different altitudes while mapping the surface and collecting scientific data.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
But if you can dig and play from your soul, this instrument just becomes a vessel of sound and orbit, bro, it’s over.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
At least one member of the crew will spend a full year in orbit as part of a key experiment.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Crews aboard Tiangong have until now largely remained in orbit for six months before being replaced.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
Rutherford’s finding presented some large and immediate problems, not least that no electron should be able to orbit a nucleus without crashing.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing orbit
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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