How to Use hypervelocity in a Sentence

hypervelocity

noun

• They could be used as a hypervelocity gun on a main battle tank.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
• Since then, astronomers have discovered about 20 of these fast-moving stars, known as hypervelocity stars.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 July 2017
• This is orders of magnitude slower than the hypervelocity impacts that a shuttle deals with, but the spear is thousands of times more massive than a fleck of paint.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• If both white dwarfs often go supernova together, this could explain why fewer hypervelocity white dwarfs are seen.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these hypervelocity stars at the fringes of the Milky Way.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 Mar. 2025
• Spacecraft that’ve run dry today will be the seedbed for tumbling, hypervelocity shrapnel tomorrow.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
• The traditional picture of how hypervelocity stars are made begins with a binary star system.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2019
• From the Gaia data Shen’s team flagged seven candidate hypervelocity white dwarf stars.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Claremont for one doesn’t expect the advent of better drones or hypervelocity cannon shells to change navies’ attitudes toward half-carriers.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• That means this hypervelocity star and its planet could be destined to escape the Milky Way and go intergalactic, though this process would take millions of years.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2025
• Instead, the Navy is pursuing an offshoot of the railgun, a hypervelocity projectile, that can be fired from existing gun systems.
  — David Sharp, Chron, 1 July 2021
• The technology has undergone extensive hypervelocity testing on Earth and is expected to face its first in-orbit trials this year.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Keith Hawkins, an astronomer at Columbia University who studies hypervelocity stars but did take not part in the research, agrees there is further work to be done.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• There are alternative scenarios, but none explains why most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far are all in the same area of sky, in the Leo and Sextans constellations.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 July 2017
• In such scenarios where two stars are locked in orbit around each other, their interaction with other stars in dense clusters can catapult the less massive star in the binary system into a hypervelocity trajectory.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• Another missile slated for mass production is called a hypervelocity gliding projectile, which is more maneuverable than other missiles although the technology is still in the early stages.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The hypervelocity and precognitive technology of unidentified anomalous phenomena alone turn the 'drone' theory on its head.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• Astronomers have spotted 21 hypervelocity stars in the last two decades, all of them B-type main-sequence stars that are more massive, luminous and bluer than the Sun (these stars are easier to spot than other stars in these kinds of surveys).
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
• Beyond that the Army is looking at hypervelocity glide weapons with a range exceeding 1,700 miles, and a strategic cannon that potentially can reach far, far beyond the range of any previous cannon—hundreds of miles at least.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• For the next four years, officials there labored away quietly on projects ranging from swarming microdrones to hypervelocity projectiles, until the Pentagon finally revealed the organization's existence.
  — chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• As the amount of orbital debris continues to rise, a US materials manufacturer has unveiled a new shielding solution that promises to protect satellites and astronauts from hypervelocity impacts while reducing the risk of creating even more debris in orbit.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
• According to Air Force magazine, the Paladin fired a new hypersonic Mach 5 hypervelocity projectile and successfully intercepted the target.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
• Micrometeoroids travel through space at hypervelocity speeds averaging 22,000 miles per hour (34,405 kilometers per hour), according to NASA.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 June 2026