weightlessness
Example Sentences
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A person falling freely in a lift, for example, would experience weightlessness.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
She spent more than 320 days in space on her last mission, but she said the sensation of weightlessness had never lingered so long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Koch described being so conditioned by weightlessness that back on Earth she had dropped a shirt expecting it to float - and was startled when it fell.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
It also established Sánchez as the first future Bezos wife to achieve weightlessness 62 miles above the Earth, just like Reese Witherspoon's TV anchor on "The Morning Show."
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025
The problem was that my heart, veins, and arteries had gotten used to weightlessness and needed a little while to readjust to gravity.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
