Sample sentences for TRAJECTORY

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Definition

the path followed by an object moving through space

or:

the path of any sequence of events

High winds will alter the rocket's trajectory.

trajectory = path or route

Medicare cannot survive on its current trajectory.

trajectory = path

If growth continues on its current trajectory, the company will need another two million dollars in working capital next year.

trajectory = path

The beetle came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

trajectory = route

It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

trajectory = prior path

[speaking of a mechanical hound] It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

trajectory = path or route

Please don't check the firing trajectory, he thought.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
I tried to digest all this, trying to picture the trajectory of Daniel's life.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
Judging from its trajectory, it looked like it would have surely kept going until it hit the right field wall.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
I throw my knife at the oncoming mutt but the creature somersaults, evading the blade, and stays on its trajectory.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
Hassan pointed, and Colin followed the trajectory of his finger to an oak tree about fifteen feet away.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
"Those are trajectory lines—Honestly, am I the only person who's ever seen a strategy map?"
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
The grylmhoch's many eyes followed his trajectory Mouths formed, great yawning maws that could have swallowed a bulldozer.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
A jet, up in the blue, silently marking its trajectory with a long, single vapor trail.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the trajectory of the ball.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
He sniffed its new-cut leaves delicately and then, after turning this way and that to get range and trajectory, he fired.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
And each of them could easily hurl my world into a new trajectory.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir
Shoot, in two weeks I met my future wife, changed my entire life's trajectory, and bought my first tie.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
Force times the trajectory angle-
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

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