How to Use terminator in a Sentence

terminator

noun
  • Gaze along the terminator — the line that divides the lit from unlit portions — for your best views.
    — Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Your best views of the will be right around what’s known as the terminator, the line between the sunlit and darkened part of the moon.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Glover then narrated his view of the terminator, the boundary between night and day on the Moon.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For all the handshakes and hugs this weekend, Betts was a cold-blooded terminator between the lines.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The terminator quickly returns on the right, bringing nighttime with it.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2017
  • On Mercury, the dividing line between day and night, the terminator, is more than just a twilight zone.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Glover also noted the stark view of the Moon’s terminator, the transition between day and night.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The first set of HIV drugs were nucleic acid inhibitors, known as chain terminator drugs.
    — William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Terminator is a time-travel franchise that throws in AI and the apocalypse.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 19 May 2017
  • The terminator is the dividing line between the illuminated and dark sides of the moon.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Their goal is to use the terminator model to provide businesses with better solar forecasts.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The models predict that sulfur dioxide would be more common at the morning terminator, which is cooler than the evening side of the planet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2023
  • However, in some cases, lightning strikes happened mostly on the nightside, just past the day-night terminator line.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 May 2025
  • Plus, the robots in question here aren't miniature terminators that crawl about blasting mucus from the walls of your sinuses with laser rifles.
    — New Atlas, 30 June 2025
  • That means better contrast, especially along the terminator, the line dividing the lunar light zone from the dark zone.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Young John and the new terminator break Sarah Connor out of the mental hospital.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • This has provoked intense debate over whether these bodies can host life since liquid water would exist only in a narrow band along the terminator.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • For a closer look at craters and the terminator, make sure to grab a 9mm or 12mm eyepiece and get stronger magnification.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 25 May 2026
  • Look 10 degrees below the lunar equator to find a string of three enormous impact sites resting on the terminator.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The terminator can also be defined as that variable line between the illuminated portion and the part of the moon in shadow.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 22 May 2026
  • Underwood possessed a terminator-like focus during that time.
    — Murphy Wheeler, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2020
  • While the terminator model has caught on, plenty of other ways of thinking about the sun exist—some of them with more physics reasoning underlying them.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Glover, for example, was particularly taken with the terminator, the boundary between day and night on the moon.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Most observers prefer to study the moon when the line between light and dark (called the terminator) is visible, because the deep shadows there make crater rims and walls on the line pop in relief.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The oblong pit near the terminator might be a degraded impact crater, NASA says.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This is prime time for lunar viewing, with shadows from mountains and craters stretched dramatically close to the terminator — the line between lunar night and day.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • At this point, the Earth's terminator — the fuzzy edge between day and night — is located roughly through the mid-section of the lower 48 states.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2017
  • This photo was taken as the Artemis II crew flew over the terminator, the dividing line between light and darkness on the moon.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • By the early hours of March 12, the terminator will have swept past the Montes Apenninus, hiding them from view.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • As the line of darkness — called the terminator — recedes, features near the border stand out in bold relief; the shadows become stronger and details are more easily seen.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025

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