Example sentences for: gravity

How can you use “gravity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Through verbal performances, joking, and narrating humorous anecdotes, an individual can suspend elements of gravity, snobbery, or socially imposed acceptable conduct.

  • Extreme lateral positioning attempts to alter perfusion through the effects of gravity.

  • With his pinwheeling, hopscotch creativity, he has changed the nation's center of gravity, reinventing commerce, art, science, technology, and faith.

  • The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)

  • No matter how carefully Starr's sympathizers explained the distinction between the two cases--and even the superior gravity of the criminal case over the civil case--journalists fell back on the Clintonite spin that, as Tom Brokaw put it, Starr's probe "grew out of the Paula Jones case" and had therefore lost its viability.


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