Example sentences for: halley

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

  • If you're not busy Saturday, would you like to go with me to an auction in Rancho Santa Fe of the household items left over by the Heaven's Gate cult members when they left their "earthly vehicles" and went into the sky to join Halley's Comet?

  • Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.

  • In a Miami Herald column I admitted my confusion about Halley and Uranus and added that I was guilty of even greater ignorance.

  • Imagine my shame when I heard a TV announcer declare that one should rhyme Halley with Sally, rally , and tally (as in Ho !).

  • I had read about Halley's Comet first, I suspect, as a youngster; seeing the word in print, but not having much occasion to shout it aloud (the comet coming around only once every 75 years), I formed its pronunciation in my mind and there it stayed.


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