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
• The planetary nebulae — which, despite the name, have nothing to do with planets — could bear fruit in the future, as they can be used by astronomers to make distance measurements.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 June 2025
• After Mercury’s debut in Cancer, and your seventh house of agreements, compromise and significant others, the messenger planet will square your planetary ruler, Saturn, on June 9, triggering tension with family or around your own repressed emotions.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 4 June 2025