Sample Sentences forlight-year (auto-selected)
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A light-year is nearly ten trillion kilometers.† (source)
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The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.† (source)
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This was the theory of "contact as symbol" proposed by sociologist Bill Mathers of RAND Corporation in his book, The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology.† (source)
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And then Navi, which is 550 light-years away.† (source)
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"Yeah," he said, "but all the black holes are about two million light-years away from Earth."† (source)
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For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away.† (source)
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Atlanta is only a couple of hours away, but it is light-years from this.† (source)
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And even to say "southern heaven" is to try to familiarize terrific convulsions of fire in the million light-year distances (and why, from space to space, does the occupancy have to be by fire?)† (source)
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He's light-years ahead of the old fart outside.† (source)
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For heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light-years away, you know.† (source)
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The visor was light-years ahead of the clunky virtual-reality goggles available prior to that time, and it represented a paradigm shift in virtual-reality technology—as did the lightweight OASIS haptic gloves, which allowed users to directly control the hands of their avatar and to interact with their simulated environment as if they were actually inside it.† (source)
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Dad explained light-years and black holes and quasars and told us about the special qualities of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Venus.† (source)
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She is too many light-years away.† (source)
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To see Herald Square on television made me feel as if I were stranded millions of light-years from Earth and picking up signals from the early days of radio, announcer voices and audience applause from a vanished civilization.† (source)
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My father's stories had given me a glittering image of the city of Krakow, three hundred fifty miles and light-years removed from the life I knew in Narewka.† (source)
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He dropped his hand on my shoulder as I squinted through the lens at the five stars burning over fifty light-years from the spot on which we stood.† (source)
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