How to Use outer space in a Sentence

outer space

noun
  • Is there life in outer space?
  • More people have been to outer space than to this depth of the ocean.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 19 June 2023
  • The changes may help the brain adapt to the weightlessness of outer space.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • And paradise, like outer space, is the stuff of dreams.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The Earth is struck by objects from outer space up to 50 times a day.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
  • But in the six years since the probe has been zipping through outer space and flying by the Sun?
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Once the bin is full, the poop is then discarded with the rest of the trash into outer space.
    — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Beneath that, the crack and crash of battling robots, the pssssh of a hull breech in outer space.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Her hair is so shiny it can be seen from outer space, and the texture is as straight as a ruler.
    — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Servers unzipped, dropped off the food, zipped back up — like St. Patrick’s Day in outer space.
    — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The outer space of the future is thus poised to resemble the seas of today.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Here’s the weird story behind this week’s blast from the past (from outer space).
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • Neil likens the feeling to that of pondering the vastness of outer space.
    — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The richest man in the world is going to outer space in his own rocket.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • All the while, the stories in those comic books stuck — and over the decades, his passion for outer space has, too.
    — Elissa Miolene, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Back in 2020 it was revealed that the actor was planning to film a movie in outer space.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Not the facts, not the rights and the lefts, not the plots, which could take place in outer space or in hell or anywhere in between, but the feelings.
    — Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • How many people can say they’ve been drafted by the NFL and flown to outer space?
    — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Lovers of all things outer space will flip for this glowing stunt drone that looks like a retro UFO.
    — Jessica Hartshorn and Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The stars can be seen as a galaxy in outer space, or it can be seen as going down to drain.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Tintin's adventures took him across the globe, from the US to Sydney and even outer space.
    — Hannah Ryan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The flight could mark a new era for travels into outer space.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The video shows Glover sitting by a window soaking in the view from outer space.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The summit’s attendees have been to the bottom of the seafloor, the top of Earth’s tallest mountains, and even outer space.
    — Georgia Frances King, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2019
  • And both seem to be taking place deep in the holler, somewhere near a swampland and in outer space all at once.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Concerns over the weaponization of outer space are decades old.
    — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The initial goal was to learn about how to support human life in outer space.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
  • In the film, Mescal plays Junior, a rural Midwestern farmer who gets the chance to live in outer space.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Katy Perry brought a few earthbound things with her during her 10-minute trip to outer space.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The Blue Origin flight will reach the Kármán line—or the boundary where Earth’s atmosphere meets outer space.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2025

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