How to Use regolith in a Sentence

regolith

noun
  • The roots from the ones growing in the lunar regolith were not.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • The remaining regolith was now locked in and ready to ship to Earth.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • All the water that is pulled from the regolith is then purified.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Most of the moon’s surface is covered by a fine gray dust called lunar regolith.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As the regolith thaws, ancient streams will flow again and life will flourish along their ruddy banks.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Interlune wants its harvester to dig up a hundred tons of regolith an hour.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That second mission, to the south pole of the moon, would have a drill that would probe the lunar regolith for ice.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The real surprise was that the plants, stunted and stressed from growing in regolith, grew at all.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The regolith, on the other hand, cools quickly, like beach sand after sunset.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
  • For that to happen, life needs to be able to flourish in the regolith in order to help fertilize it.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The contact pushes springs that trigger a blast of nitrogen gas that stirs up pieces of the regolith.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • One of the main challenges is wear to the cable when it is dragged over lunar regolith—the grit on the surface of the moon.
    — John Landreneau, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2023
  • Dirt or dust on any heavenly body is commonly referred to as regolith.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
  • In the end, many techniques for using regolith will likely be adopted in any future moon colony.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • Even now robotic bulldozers and dump trucks were at work trundling more regolith onto the building across the way.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
  • That means enormous volumes of regolith must be processed to extract useful gas.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In a final step, the regolith was left to cool at room temperature for about 16 hours.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
  • Cleaning up the regolith and turning it into something viable wouldn’t be easy.
    — Sven Bilén, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • Cleaning up the regolith and turning it into something viable wouldn’t be easy.
    — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 15 July 2024
  • The rover was intended to visit the lunar poles, where loose regolith, steep slopes, and shadowed craters abound.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 May 2020
  • And what better place to take off and land from than the giant litter box that is the undisturbed regolith of the Moon?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
  • Shevtsov is also working on a proposal to support plant growth in regolith on Mars.
    — Madeleine Gregory, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Scientists had long believed that the lunar regolith—or soil—might be shot through with crystals of water ice.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • All moving parts need to keep out—or take the abuse from—those tiny little destructive regolith dust particles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
  • The lunar surface is covered in regolith — a fine, abrasive powder.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Though the moon's surface is mostly made up of the fine regolith, various rocks are scattered throughout.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
  • Hayabusa2 found that Ryugu also lacks fine regolith and has high-porosity rocks, says the agency.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • In places shadowed from the wind, loose regolith has built up, much of it with Mars' characteristic red tint.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The teams monitor how dust affects rover movement and its solar panel, and how the regolith gums up the panels.
    — David A. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021

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