How to Use gravitation in a Sentence

gravitation

noun
  • This effect is caused due to a gravitation gradient across your body.
    — Kevin Pimbblet, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Love is gravitation toward the beloved.
    — Rachel Whalen, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The gravitation of youth in Chile to the more distant left explains the rise of Boric.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • First, a massive cloud of matter begins to collapse under the weight of its own gravitation.
    — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Then there are those that don't use a weird metric to separate gravitation from everything else.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The sunlight’s intensity is less than half of Earth’s, and the gravitation pull is a third.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2021
  • There is even, at times, a certain mischievous glee detectable in his gravitation toward the gothic, the grotesque and the creepy.
    — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • Only this picture of the Universe, at least so far, works to describe gravitation.
    — Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Since the gravitation force is in the same direction as the displacement, the angle between these two is zero.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 July 2014
  • What if the expansion rate and the effects of gravitation were less perfectly balanced?
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • As Feud implies, this may have influenced his gravitation to the swans, as well as his willingness to betray them.
    — Cady Lang, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Supermassive black holes, with a gravitation pull so strong that light can't escape, are present in most galaxies, the researchers said.
    — USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
  • Clearly the effect was from gravitation (the tides) not illumination (full moons/new moons).
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Some legal experts say Trump’s gravitation toward loyalists could serve him well, while others have raised caution flags over it.
    — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Nov. 2024
  • These abstract constructs have proved very powerful — in the theory of gravitation, for instance.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • At the same time, Ravelomanana’s gravitation toward music was a constant.
    — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Would that the answer wasn’t mostly a gravitation toward Wikipedia summaries of Jungian archetypes.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravitation had since explained why the moon orbited Earth and why tides occurred.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • In addition to the sun's intense heat, it was also likely subjected to tremendous solar gravitation and tidal forces.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • With the law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton wedded the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2015
  • Some suspected the two spacecraft were being tugged by an unseen cloud of dark matter or else were exposing a breakdown in the laws of gravitation at large distances.
    — Viktor T. Toth, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2012
  • Instead it was discovered that light does not travel in absolutely straight lines, but bends slightly due to the Earth's gravitation.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
  • Taking the long way 'round, so to speak, capitalizes on the planet's gravitation pull in an effort to save fuel on the journey to Mercury.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2020
  • None of those guys, of course, knew very much of our modern understanding of cosmology, gravitation, and quantum mechanics.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2011
  • There's a reason behind that aversion to yellow, that continual gravitation towards black, or why blue and white is a perennial favorite.
    — Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2016
  • Matt and Bri then bond over their mutual childhood gravitation towards friends with big families including a mom, a dad, and bunches of siblings.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The cluster’s enormous gravitation field acts as a lens, warping and magnifying the light from galaxies behind it that would otherwise be too faint and faraway to see.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Power law distributions are seen in many physical situations, like the inverse square laws of gravitation and electric fields.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
  • The largest, most overdense regions of matter start to contract the fastest; gravitation is a game of runaway growth, and whichever regions have the greatest amounts of mass collapse the earliest.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The situation exposed the riskiness of Demna’s gravitation toward the most volatile parts of pop culture.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'gravitation.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: