How to Use escape velocity in a Sentence

escape velocity

noun
  • With escape velocity in mind, don’t let up on the throttle one bit.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The high dropout rate means that everyone is in search of the one thing that will reach escape velocity.
    — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Every now and then, though, a cocktail from the modern era achieves escape velocity and breaks through.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Even the cosmos is fair game, especially in a tech world known for its moon shots and escape velocities.
    — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the escape velocity needed to stand alone again as Nvidia.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • On more massive bodies the escape velocity can be much higher.
    — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But the team identified seven that were moving faster than the escape velocity of the cluster.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 July 2024
  • Venus is so hot that the molecules of most gases easily reach escape velocity.
    — Kevin Grazier, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Younger kids can match pictures of celestial objects, and older kids and adults can learn facts about space, like the escape velocity of the earth.
    — Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The initial velocity an object would have to travel at to avoid falling back to the ground is called the escape velocity.
    — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Like how rockets on Earth must do, Nyan Cat would have to reach the escape velocity of the Moon.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
  • Soar higher, to twenty-two thousand miles above earth, to that sweet spot where escape velocity meshes with gravity.
    — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • Larger narratives would only destroy that apartness from the chain of events which gives them escape velocity.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The ecstasy and g-force thrill of achieving escape velocity from drab beginnings.
    — Hillary Kelly, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Riding that demographic, Snap aimed for the stars and achieved escape velocity fast.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • This transformation happened around the time the idea of becoming a writer had gained escape velocity in my mind.
    — Ian MacKenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • The gravitational force of objects in space varies, and therefore so does their escape velocity.
    — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • How does a company like Spotify grow up over the last 10 years and achieve escape velocity?
    — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 5 Dec. 2017
  • This process energizes the hydrogen atom, which can then exceed the planet’s escape velocity and escape to space.
    — Eryn Cangi, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • Secret was one of the last pop-up social networks to approach something resembling escape velocity.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2018
  • The stronger the gravitational force of a celestial body, the higher its escape velocity will be.
    — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the boulder population can be roughly divided in half, with the faster half having achieved escape velocity.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 July 2023
  • The escape velocity is a measurment of how fast an object would have to travel to completely escape from the galaxy’s orbit.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Schwarzschild found a point around a body with mass at which the escape velocity, the speed needed to escape the gravitational grip of that body, exceeds the speed of light.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • Many Americans began to hope that the country had enough escape velocity to exit its cycle of missteps and sickness.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Lee spent much of his career trying to achieve escape velocity from the business that made him, writing books and movie scripts that never coalesced, pitching film projects that fizzled.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • His later works, which took cars and speedboats as their themes, were similarly handmade, their forms at once suggesting nostalgia and escape velocity.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And now, momentum has finally reached escape velocity.
    — Jordan P. Kelley, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For startups, achieving escape velocity means gaining enough market traction, revenue and a solid customer base to move beyond failure.
    — Richie Etwaru, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Its shares achieved escape velocity earlier this week thanks to the Wuhan coronavirus contagion that’s going global.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2020

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