How to Use comet in a Sentence

comet

noun

• Every year, the Earth passes near the path of the comet.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• Skywatchers will have chances to glimpse the comet through most of the remainder of the month.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Bright planets, stars and even a comet may appear if the skies are clear.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• On that day, the comet, which appears to be bright green, will be about 27 million miles away from the Earth.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 31 Jan. 2023
• The Leonids come from debris from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Given that the comet hasn't been seen since the last ice age, this is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
  — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 2 Feb. 2023
• Strasburg was a comet streaking across the San Diego sky well before.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• Rare, green comet to pass by Earth Wednesday Why is it called a devil comet?
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
• MacNeill said if the comet is bright, Frosty Drew will announce a public event.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• The comet’s debris heats up when met by friction from the Earth’s atmosphere and lights up.
  — Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Scientists and amateur astronomers are hot on the trail of what could be the next great comet.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.
  — Fox News, 6 May 2023
• My go-to place in Cincinnati to view objects low in the sky like planets, comets or sunsets is Ault Park.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
• This comet is thought to have come from a part of our solar system at least hundreds of billions of miles away from the sun.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
• Right now, the comet can only be seen with binoculars or a telescope.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• Little pieces of the comet even fall to Earth each year as the Eta Aquariid meteor shower.
  — Popular Science, 9 Dec. 2023
• In April of each year, Earth runs into the stream of debris from the comet, causing the meteor shower.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• The last time comet Halley was seen by casual observers was in 1986.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2022
• Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets that orbit the sun like the planets.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• The two-person bath was infused with the brewery’s comet hops, crystal malt and juniper berries.
  — Linnea Covington, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The latest season sees the group back in high school, stuck in the '50s after a comet wiped out the town of Riverdale and forced Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook) to send them all back in time.
  — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Eta Aquariids is one of Earth's two meteor showers that come from the debris trail of the famed Halley's comet.
  — USA Today, 5 Jan. 2023
• The debris is actually pieces of a large comet that broke apart tens of thousands of years ago, NASA said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2022
• Fragments from asteroids that broke apart make up some of them, and some is debris shed by comets.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The orbital period of the comet is estimated to be 434 years.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Two years later, the Stardust mission returned a little piece of a comet.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• One astronomer pointed out that Earth would encounter the comet’s gaseous tail, filled with toxic cyanogen gas.
  — Popular Science, 9 Dec. 2023
• As the Earth moves through the debris trail of a comet or asteroid on its orbit around the sun, bits of dust and rock collide with our planet.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• The ice turns to gas and pulls the dust away, which forms the traditional tail associated with comets.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024