How to Use comet in a Sentence

comet

noun

• And when the comet is this close, there just isn't time for that.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• Every year, the Earth passes near the path of the comet.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 July 2023
• The comet that was the young Reds fell faster than the 1929 stock market.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2021
• The comet was as bright as the North Star until Oct. 16.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
• That’s so close that the comet may appear brighter than the stars.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2025
• The comet takes 33 years to complete one orbit of the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Nov. 2020
• The probe is expected to arrive at the comet in the mid-2030s.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2025
• But first, the largest comet of the years is approaching.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
• During the beginning of the week, the comet will be too close to the sun to see.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
• Think of it this way; if Arcturus and Venus are the ends of a coat-hanger, the comet is the hook.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The comet should appear for a couple of hours in the east, where the sun rises.
  — Jorge Garay, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2024
• In the movie, Earth finds itself in the path of a comet that’s big enough to destroy the planet.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• But, spoiler alert, in the Netflix flick, the comet hits the Earth — and destroys it.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• Skywatchers will have chances to glimpse the comet through most of the remainder of the month.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• That show was like a comet across the sky of sketch comedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Bright planets, stars and even a comet may appear if the skies are clear.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The comet has a tail made up of dust and ice,which is typical of comets that pass by the sun.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
• That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• This may also need to be done when the comet is nearby?
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• The comet has an orbital period about the sun of 33 years.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Meech called it a Manx comet, after a breed of cat without a tail.
  — Byeric Hand, science.org, 5 Oct. 2022
• Devin Booker looked more like Haley's comet than a Sun in the first half.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Did any of this film’s stakeholders object to the comet hitting the Earth at the end?
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
• Just how visible the shower will be depend on the speed of the comet.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2022
• The trio of snacks comes with a comet of sweet Thai chile sauce on the plate, one of the restaurant’s non-African flourishes.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• The Leonids come from debris from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• The plume has been pushed away by the sun's radiation, not unlike the tail of a comet.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022
• In Zoroastrian scripture, a comet called Gochihr collides with the Earth and wreaks havoc, as comets will.
  — Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• Messier was interested in comets, so his list was a set of fuzzy objects that might be mistaken for comets.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025