How to Use gravity in a Sentence

gravity

noun
  • But there is a gravity and sense of place too.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This kid brought so much gravity to the piece.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But what if gravity didn’t work that way out in space?
    Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The more mass, the stronger the gravity, and the faster a star moves.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The venue change made for a tidy metaphor, but this was a shift in gravity.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That doesn’t work for gravity, though.
    George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There was a gravity to it all, because how could there not be?
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • There's no gravity on the moon — why is the flag blowing?
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This change in gravity with distance is called the tidal force.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
  • This is the idea spelled out in loop quantum gravity, or in causal sets.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Paxton gives true gravity to the film’s ideas about evil.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
  • But gravity is not just pulling the object.
    Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After that, gravity does most of the work.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • The hardest haul is right from the get-go; from then on, gravity is on your side.
    Shauna Farnell, Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Align the grooves in the top piece with ones on the bottom, and let gravity take its course.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The gravity of a commitment like this is not lost on any of us.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There is only gravity, dirt, rock, and sky.
    Emily Meg Weinstein september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The amount of the kick depends in part on the gravity of the third object.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2025
  • So there's no gravity there, and there's friction.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Let the arms fall open with palms facing up and allow gravity to do the work.
    Patrick Franco, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Then gravity reached up to the ceiling and pulled me down back into my seat.
    Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In surgery, that gravity gets people killed.
    James G. Naples, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • As the confetti fell, the gravity of what was ahead took shape.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Plot has to be like gravity, a constant, pulling on you to turn every page.
    Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And so, even now, no one can say whether our laws of gravity need revision.
    Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • High ponytails were adorned with even more hair that defied the laws of gravity.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The miniature ones are small enough that the gravity doesn’t affect them in that way.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
  • This was certainly a fear of mine, and post-birth, gravity has done its thing.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Sometimes stars wander too close to a large black hole, and the gravity can rip them apart.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Black holes are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their gravity.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025

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