Example sentences for: orbit

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

  • The rocket failed to orbit its satellite but demonstrated Pyongyang's unsuspected ballistic prowess.

  • Three weeks before this announcement, the United States had launched its first manned flight: a 15-minute journey by Alan Shepard that didn't even reach orbit.

  • If that pace of change had continued, I would probably have been sending you this e-mail from Jupiter orbit.

  • I need a “tricorder”—the convenient, hand-held device featured on Star Trek that can detect life forms even from orbit.

  • Instead they tried to send her into orbit.


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