How to Use orbit in a Sentence

orbit

1 of 2 noun
  • And who will still be in their orbit when the time comes?
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s what to know about the Earth’s orbit.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Here’s what to know about the Earth’s orbit.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • The reason lies in the tilt of the moon's orbit.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But you guys are in each other’s orbits.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That was the first label that came into our orbit.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The planet couldn't have always been in such a close orbit to its star.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • Swift was expected to last two years in orbit.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 19 June 2026
  • The two would rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Juno is somewhere in orbit around the planet, far too small to be seen.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • They will also be fought openly in orbit.
    — Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The landing failed, but the rocket reached orbit as planned.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • Artemis 2 won't land on the moon or even enter lunar orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some of those higher-risk ideas were things like single-stage-to-orbit space planes.
    — Scott Pace, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Artemis 2 will not touch down on the moon, or even enter lunar orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The spacecraft has no engines of its own to maintain its orbit.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • That post did not provide any details about the spacecraft or its orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • The star system consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf locked in a close orbit.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • As soon as Vince is in his orbit, his consciousness changes.
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone with hardware or human crew in orbit knows the drill.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
  • These disks can contain smaller black holes that orbit within the gas.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Sadly, there are few people left in Musk’s orbit who can keep him in check.
    — Byzoë Schiffer, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Any nation with assets on orbit must now plan and budget for the full range of these threats.
    — Michael P. Dempsey, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026
  • The reason there are leap days, and years, is because of the Earth's orbit.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, the Padres’ world moved in a different orbit.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Mini solar farms in the form of low-orbit satellites.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Meir then read a message about her perspective from orbit.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Kimmel isn’t speaking, but some others in his orbit are.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This happens when the full moon falls at perigee – its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This happens when the full moon falls at perigee – its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 Jan. 2026

orbit

2 of 2 verb
  • The Moon orbits the Earth.
  • The Moon orbits around the Earth.
  • The satellites orbit at different heights.
  • Artemis 2 won't land on or orbit the moon.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit the sun once.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That one takes 133 days to orbit the sun.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The mission will neither land on the moon nor orbit it.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The astronauts won’t orbit the moon or land on it.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The same can be said of the moon, which instead orbits Earth.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The same can be said of the moon, which instead orbits Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The same can be said of the moon, which instead orbits Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The same can be said of the moon, which instead orbits Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The same can be said of the moon, which instead orbits Earth.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That's because of how the moon orbits our planet.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That's because of how the moon orbits our planet.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That's because of how the moon orbits our planet.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
  • These moons can range from rocky and dusty to ice moons, and orbit closer to the planet.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The power race is moving to orbit.
    — Brigitte Bren, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The pair of asteroids orbits the sun and doesn’t pose any threat to our planet.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The planets orbit the sun in roughly the same flat plane, known as the ecliptic.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Much of our social life, our ways of making and sharing a world, orbits the face.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • This space rock doesn’t orbit Earth directly like the moon does.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In the not-too-distant past, a rocket might launch to orbit every few weeks or so.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • As Earth orbits the sun, the sunset point shifts along the horizon through the year.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Leo Right now, there is a lot of chatter orbiting you, adding to your stress.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Small rocky planets stay close to their star, while large gas planets orbit much farther away.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026
  • What feels inevitable now was once just three kids from Brownsville orbiting the same blocks.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That means spacecraft orbiting Mars are in play.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Comets, on the other hand, are still active balls of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the sun.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Others will be retired by sending them on a path to orbit the Sun.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026

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