How to Use gaseous in a Sentence

gaseous

adjective
  • What’s the deal with this gaseous planet shaped like a football?
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Most moons are airless or boast little more than gauzy, gaseous veils.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The broader threat is gaseous vog and ash — vog is the volcanic form of fog.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • His every gaseous eruption is played over and over on cable news.
    — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Aug. 2017
  • They've been teased out in the lab before, but only in gaseous states that quickly wore away.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Scientists can then make some guesses as to whether the planet is rocky or gaseous.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Some of the debris fell onto the gaseous planet, but much of it fell toward the rings.
    — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
  • Centrifuges are tall tubes that enrich a gaseous form of uranium.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The planets closer to the star are smaller and rocky, while the ones farther out are large and gaseous.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Everything seems to come alive at once, opening a hole in the floor that emits a weird, gaseous black… something.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Comas are the gaseous clouds that form around the nucleus as the comet's ices evaporate.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • What's called tear gas actually comes in a powdery solid form, rather than a gaseous state.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 2 June 2020
  • For gaseous macrocosmic poli-sci, people can turn to Aaron Sorkin.
    — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Look for the gaseous world less than five degrees east of the moon, fitting within a binocular field of view.
    — National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2016
  • Then the eruption happened and, almost overnight, the gaseous factory seemed to turn off.
    — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The region is home to a fiery, gaseous pit, which some believe to be the literal mouth of Hell.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • With the exception of a rocky core, the planet is made of gaseous and liquid elements.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • One astronomer pointed out that Earth would encounter the comet’s gaseous tail, filled with toxic cyanogen gas.
    — Popular Science, 9 Dec. 2023
  • After blowing off its gaseous outer layers, its core contracts.
    — Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The companion star is now about the size of a large gaseous planet, or 20 times the mass of Jupiter.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • The gaseous refrigerant then flows to the system's outdoor coil, moving heat out of your home.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 June 2024
  • In fact, in gaseous form at room temperature, atoms are buzzing around at over 1,000 mph.
    — Paul Lipman, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The only space left above the mass should be enough to compensate for the expansion of the mass due to gaseous release.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 May 2025
  • Cesium, in particular, is more of a wild card than once thought, often staying gaseous for much longer.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 May 2026
  • Even at that size, the planets could still be solid rather than gaseous and have liquid water on or below the surface.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 June 2020
  • The mobile launcher lost its supply of gaseous nitrogen during the launch.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
  • At the very end of the star’s life, after all of the gaseous layers have formed, the iron core of the star forms, Miller explained.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The planet could be a rocky world larger than Earth, a gaseous mini-Neptune or even an ocean world.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The ignorosphere forms a boundary between Earth's gaseous shroud and outer space.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025

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