How to Use gravity in a Sentence

gravity

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  • The craft will aim for a gravity assist from Mars in 2026 to help it along the next stage of the journey.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The challenge is to not puncture the gravity of the story with the humor.
    — Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • At the start of the decade, the global M&A market seemed to defy gravity.
    — Marc Cooper, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, Elon Musk seemed to have escaped the force of gravity.
    — Time, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Light bends around the gravity of the black hole, which creates the photon ring seen in the image.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The first is gravity, which is always pulling the object — in our case, a reindeer — to the ground.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • As such, the pull of gravity from all objects is equal.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The gravity of a commitment like this is not lost on any of us.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • As a result, the force of gravity becomes too strong and the joint is pulled downward and out of place.
    — Tim Petrie, Dpt, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
  • Once the earthquake was over, the columns would return to the center of their bases due to gravity.
    — Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The next speaker put a finer point on the gravity of the occasion.
    — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In this movie, Tokyo is cut off from the rest of the world by giant bubbles that defy gravity.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Pinewood Derby is a gravity race held on a straight, multi-lane track.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Plot has to be like gravity, a constant, pulling on you to turn every page.
    — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • High ponytails were adorned with even more hair that defied the laws of gravity.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In the absence of gravity, fluids shift toward the head.
    — Rachael Seidler, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • My limbs hang, pulled by the gravity of a far larger planet.
    — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Near the end of her speech, tears started to flow as the gravity of the moment hit her seemingly all at once.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • This was certainly a fear of mine, and post-birth, gravity has done its thing.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Aug. 2022
  • In the long run, kids can’t really win the game, as gravity inevitably wins out.
    — Sean Trende, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
  • And so, even now, no one can say whether our laws of gravity need revision.
    — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • When these clouds collapse under their own gravity and form young stars, the water ends up in the disks around them.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • As a mentee of the late DJ Rashad, the producer understands the gravity of the label’s legacy.
    — Arielle Lana Lejarde, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Then, in space, the force of gravity from Earth, Mars, and the sun pulls the spacecraft in different directions.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The film captured the scale and gravity of this mass deforestation in unique ways.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
  • If everything goes as planned, and the laws of gravity and motion don’t change at the last minute, this will happen at 7:14 p.m.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But even this doesn’t compare to jogging under the force of gravity at home.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • The scenario might also tell us why gravity—which sculpts the universe on the largest scales—is so weak compared to the other forces.
    — Steve Nadis, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
  • One interesting takeaway: The lack of gravity can cause the body’s messaging to the brain to go awry.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The assessment must take into account: The nature and gravity of the offense.
    — Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

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