Synonyms

1. celestial orbit

Sentence Examples

1. She was either preparing to ask a bombshell of a question or throw this latest theory out of orbit.
2. Others slithered up his neck, over his jawbone and clustered around the orbit of his hurt eye.
3. Now, this is precisely what ought to be the case, if we suppose a resistance experienced from the comet from an extremely rare ethereal medium pervading the regions of its orbit.
4. It was over six months before he was allowed back with us, and Zeb and I just pulled him into our orbit.
5. Seated on the porch swing, we sway gently, moving in unison like two planets with a shared orbit.
6. As if the sun should stop when he had kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin Goodfellow, peeping in at every cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing his genial heat and beneficence till he is of such brightness that no mortal can look him in the face, and then, and in the mean while too, going about the world in his own orbit, doing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has discovered, the world going about him getting good.
7. He was passing methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated around him.
8. The minute Sam had laid eyes on him, the world stopped turning unless he was in her orbit.
9. But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
10. She stands there in the middle of the room looking like a fake sun, the yellow pendant earrings she has on resembling moons that come wildly into orbit around her face as she moves.