Sample Sentences forcomet (editor-reviewed)
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Halley's Comet comes within naked-eye distance of earth about every 75 years and has been recorded by astronomers since 240 BC.comet = a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
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Halley's Comet it expected to return to earth in about 2061.
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Her teeth were bared, her eyes shone like fire, and her long hair streamed out behind her like a comet's tail. (source)comet = a small icy body that orbits the sun
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The videos of the Second Invasion, when they were destroying our fleets out in the comet shell. (source)comet = a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
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"I'll give you the Comet of 1812," Anna said. (source)Comet = a small icy body that orbits the sun
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Clever men, distinguished men, and even men of exalted station formed a perpetual and brilliant court round the fascinating young actress of the Comedie Francaise, and she glided through republican, revolutionary, bloodthirsty Paris like a shining comet with a trail behind her of all that was most distinguished, most interesting, in intellectual Europe. (source)
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I got dust rags and Comet cleanser in case I needed them.† (source)
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Rockets shooting, fireballs bursting, comets shrieking, sparks sizzling. (source)comets = small icy bodies that orbit the sun
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The musket ball streaked out of the barrel like a comet, trailing flames and smoke.† (source)
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The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun. (source)
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Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs.† (source)
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Stars, comets, planets, flashed across the sky, and then the earth came into view again, the darkened earth, closer, closer, till it filled the globe, and they had somehow gone through the darkness until the soft white of clouds and the gentle outline of continents shone clearly. (source)
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The first star was a comet, burning red.† (source)
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Klaus had been about eight, and he remembered how interested he had been in comets, reading all the astronomy books his parents had in their library. (source)
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'And if they comet' I insisted, studying him.† (source)
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In a paper bag, Aziza packed these things: her flowered shirt and her lone pair of socks, her mismatched wool gloves, an old, pumpkin-colored blanket dotted with stars and comets, a splintered plastic cup, a banana, her set of dice- (source)
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