How to Use flyby in a Sentence

flyby

noun

• The flyby will take the Orion capsule in one pass around the far side of the Moon.
  — Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
• The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to Ganymede since 2000.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 June 2021
• Trump made his entrance to the event with a flyby of the speedway in Air Force One.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2020
• So why did the Galileo team miss the data during the initial flyby in 1997?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 May 2018
• And the New Horizons team only has one chance to get this flyby right.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
• The goal is to send four people on a lunar flyby, NASA said.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 19 July 2024
• For the Neptune flyby, the stakes were so high that the Deep Space Network alone wasn’t going to cut it.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 15 Mar. 2018
• And Buie was gambling the Arrokoth flyby on that new grid.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
• The 1997 flyby was close to the site of the repeat detection by Hubble.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 May 2018
• The flyby is the first of seven that will draw Parker ever closer to the sun.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• The flyby will be quick, so there won't be time to gather many images.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2021
• The next flyby of Jupiter, Juno's 35th such trip, is scheduled for July 21.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2021
• The latest photos were from the probe’s July 2020 flyby of Venus.
  — Laura Furr Mericas, Chron, 27 Feb. 2021
• There would still be heliophysics to do with that sort of flyby.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
• The team will choose a more formal name following the flyby.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• The spacecraft will send more images from its Ganymede flyby in the coming days.
  — Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 June 2021
• The flyby gave us a close-up look of a gloriously blue world, its moons, and its rings.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
• One of those, in July 2032, will be just four hours apart from a Clipper flyby.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
• But while no one was hurt, the Padres apparently were none too pleased by the flyby.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 22 May 2017
• The flyby shots are the closest looks at Ganymede – named for a cupbearer for the ancient Greek gods -- in more than 20 years.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 June 2021
• Four astronauts in the Artemis II mission will now make a planned flyby in 2025.
  — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
• The recent flyby of Io reduced its orbit from 38 days to 35 days.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• On their way back to King’s Landing on a ship, Rhaenyra and her boatmates get a flyby from a dragon.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• Uranus and Neptune, by contrast, both got a Voyager 2 flyby, and that’s been it.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
• Even the worlds Sedna, Makemake, and Haumea could require just a small amount of fuel for a flyby.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2018
• That flyby helped push the craft on its way to its final working orbit, the agency says.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 21 May 2018
• Now, for the first time since the year 2000, Juno is going to make a close flyby of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter and also the largest moon in the entire solar system.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 7 June 2021
• As the royals stood in the balcony, jets streaked overhead, in a flyby that was truncated due to the weather.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• Each spacecraft has the ability to track and image an asteroid system through a close, fast flyby.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 20 July 2024
• This latest flyby reduced the spacecraft’s speed and changed its direction.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024