How to Use celestial body in a Sentence

celestial body

noun
  • And on its third flyby of the celestial body, the orbiter struck gold.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The first wig is inspired by the celestial bodies, by the stars.
    — Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night this month.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Both celestial bodies will fade quickly in the growing light of dawn.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • This marks the first time humans have measurably changed a celestial body's path around the sun.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Now, Lucy has a list of other small celestial bodies to visit.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This includes both outer space and celestial bodies such as the Moon.
    — Wayne N White Jr, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Most nights, if the moon is clear, the celestial body hovering in the night sky shines with a bright silvery aura.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • And exactly how clear should the celestial body’s orbit be of debris?
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • Kepler’s harmonic law acts as a scale to weigh celestial bodies.
    — Andrej Prša, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • These celestial bodies are all thought to have liquid water beneath their icy surfaces.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • But the potential role of the moon in the scenarios above still begs the question of how this celestial body might steal your snooze.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The song undulates with a weighty riff as Wilson sings about celestial bodies.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Not Oprah or the ladies on The View, but the celestial bodies that oversee the earth.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The bob-and-weave drum programming counters pretty synth melodies that float like celestial bodies.
    — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In a system of two celestial bodies, such a prediction can readily be made.
    — Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This is also called a conjunction (and the same term applies to other celestial bodies).
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The probe would need to keep its rocket engine on the whole time; otherwise, it would be pulled in by the celestial body’s gravity.
    — Govert Schilling, Scientific American, 27 June 2026
  • At that time, the celestial body will be passing the Earth’s darker inner shadow, or umbra.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Still, from our point of view here on Earth, both celestial bodies appear to be beautifully aligned.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Anna’s blood was a tidal pool dragged towards him as if by the movement of a celestial body; Harwood faced him over the ruin.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The crystal masses did look like celestial bodies shining against the midnight waters.
    — Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Tiny by cosmic standards, but large enough to detect how smaller celestial bodies move alongside planets like ours.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
  • When these two celestial bodies join forces to form a harmonious trine, the results are electrifying.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The view is of the moon's far side, an area not visible to Earth, and shows our planet rising and setting behind the celestial body.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Some studies suggest that tidal forces and electromagnetic effects from celestial bodies, such as the moon and the sun, may play a role.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Of all the celestial bodies orbiting the sun, Enceladus shines brightest.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • Not to be confused with an alignment, a conjunction occurs when two or more celestial bodies appear closer.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The sandy planets even both have twin celestial bodies viewable from the surface – two suns on Tatooine and two moons on Arrakis.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • There are also people who look at the movement of celestial bodies or the earthly elements to determine where to put their cash.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024

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