PLANETS in a Sentence

Learn PLANETS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
44 example sentences for PLANETS, such as:
1. There are nine planets in the solar system.
2. Saturn is the planet sixth in order from the sun.
3. Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse.
4. She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.
5. By gravitation the sun and planets act and react upon one another.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PLANETS
planet
 n.  a person who follows or serves another
 n.  any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
Classic Sentence:
1  Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
4  Like the planet Mercury surrounded by the lustre of sunset, her permanent brilliancy passed without much notice in the temporary glory of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
5  She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
9  I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
10  We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
11  I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 7
12  Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
13  The planet was, in fact, very near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted to it a horrible ruddy hue.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  By gravitation the sun and planets act and react upon one another.
2  The idea that there is life on other planets is the central premise of the novel.
3  The theory is that there was a rare conjunction of certain bright planets that created the image of the so-called 'Star of Bethlehem'.
4  There are nine planets in the solar system.
5  Some scientists believe that comets hold the most primitive materials in the solar system and that they played a role in shaping some of the planets.
6  What resulted was system of planets orbiting in elliptical, not circular, orbits described by three laws.
7  Perhaps alien worlds could be seeded deliberately with terrestrial micro-organisms that might take hold there, jump-starting evolution on those planets.
8  More powerful telescopes than Kepler will be needed to fish out more detail about whether the extrasolar planets do indeed have water.
9  The truth that men evade there is that this small planet cannot survive a nuclear exchange.
10  So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.
11  We were a tropic planet prior to the ice age and we are returning to it.
12  You could see one of the worst qualities of life on the planet, but in this inferno you could see an enterprising population that worked like ants.
13  He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet -- no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned.
14  He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet -- no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.
15  Saturn is the planet sixth in order from the sun.