How to Use flyby in a Sentence

flyby

noun
  • There would still be heliophysics to do with that sort of flyby.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The flyby will be quick, so there won't be time to gather many images.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • And on its third flyby of the celestial body, the orbiter struck gold.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The flyby gave us a close-up look of a gloriously blue world, its moons, and its rings.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
  • And the New Horizons team only has one chance to get this flyby right.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
  • More cyclones were spotted during a flyby over the south pole of the gas giant, too.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Four astronauts will perform a lunar flyby but will not land on the moon.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That flyby helped push the craft on its way to its final working orbit, the agency says.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 21 May 2018
  • The spacecraft will send more images from its Ganymede flyby in the coming days.
    — Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 June 2021
  • But while no one was hurt, the Padres apparently were none too pleased by the flyby.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 22 May 2017
  • The flyby will take the Orion capsule in one pass around the far side of the Moon.
    — Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Artemis 2 was strictly a flyby mission.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Huot said the mission includes long legs to and from Mars, with the flyby lasting just two hours.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 22 May 2026
  • The flyby is the first of seven that will draw Parker ever closer to the sun.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The mission is a lunar flyby, so the crew will not land on the moon or enter lunar orbit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The apex of their time together in space—the lunar flyby of day six—has almost arrived.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The astronauts will work in two-person shifts over five hours of the main flyby period.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Trump made his entrance to the event with a flyby of the speedway in Air Force One.
    — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The Christmas Eve flyby will be the first of three final close swings planned for the mission.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Eyes on the moon — for science But all of this action was just a warmup for the mission's main event — the flyby.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The orbiter will look at the clouds of Venus, as well as the planet's mountains, during two flybys.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to Ganymede since 2000.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 June 2021
  • Here's how to watch the rare flyby during two livestreams on June 26 and June 27.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • But the flyby is certain to supply stunning new pictures of Mars itself.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • Later in the flyby, the astronauts were treated to a very special solar eclipse.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Uranus and Neptune, by contrast, both got a Voyager 2 flyby, and that’s been it.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
  • While the comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, the flyby still holds significance for researchers.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The astronauts will spend roughly five hours observing the moon during the flyby.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The eclipse will last for almost an hour toward the end of the Artemis II lunar flyby.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The crew will not land on the moon but will perform a lunar flyby to collect vital data for future missions.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026

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