How to Use planetary in a Sentence

planetary

adjective

• The best time to catch a glimpse of the planetary alignment is from May 20 to May 24.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 May 2025
• Read on for when and how to spot the 2024 planetary parade.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
• Saturn holds the overnight planetary spotlight for most of the month.
  — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• This planetary shift, from April 1 through May 13, is like a bad April fool’s joke.
  — Essence Lifestyle, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
• Learn more about planetary orbits and the search for life around the galaxy.
  — Michael Roston, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• Theia, in fact, might be just one grave in a planetary cemetery.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021
• For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
  — Russell N Myers, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2025
• For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
• This will be the first time NASA sends a probe to our nearest planetary neighbor in over 30 years.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• Messier 83 and the proto-planetary disk around the star TQ Hydrae will be two of the prime targets for the new telescope.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
• But a key problem with this idea is that for most would-be planetary systems, the winds spoil the party.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• But while Lucy will head back to the outer planetary parts of the solar system, the spacecraft still has one last job to do.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 17 Aug. 2021
• The planetary tide in May 2000 was, in fact, far less than this, because the five naked-eye planets were positioned on the far side of the sun.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• As the planetary ruler of Libra, Venus is the goddess of fairness and justice.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The relations of human beings—some of them at least—to the rest of planetary life had shifted.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• For decades, we’ve been told that the solution to our planetary crisis starts with us.
  — Kate Yoder, Wired, 17 Oct. 2020
• Our planetary system and the sun at its center are not special but, judging by all those stars in the sky, one of many in the Milky Way.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 July 2021
• Season three jumps ahead a decade to the early 1990s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• In the past, Juno has also studied Jupiter's planetary rings.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
• This event, while cool and a bit uncommon, is not a true planetary alignment.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
• The planetary trio will appear slightly above it, forming a triangle with Mars to the right and the other two planets to the left of the moon just a bit.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• In Season 3, the series moved into the early ‘90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2022
• How and when the moon formed has long been a point of contention between planetary scientists.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2020
• Rao explains that the planetary positioning with each other and the sun will block most chances of a clear view.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 28 May 2024
• Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• The presence of this gas in Venus’ clouds might be a hint of life on our closest planetary neighbor, the team announced Monday.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• This is the highest planetary moon-count in our solar system.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the first analysis of the data, the team discovered roughly 500 planetary nebulae–regions of gas and dust flung off dying sun-like stars.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
• The new research finds that our own fair world has a 0.2 percent chance of being involved in a planetary collision or ejected into interstellar space.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 26 June 2025