How to Use gravity in a Sentence

gravity

noun

• The craft will aim for a gravity assist from Mars in 2026 to help it along the next stage of the journey.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
• The challenge is to not puncture the gravity of the story with the humor.
  — Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• At the start of the decade, the global M&A market seemed to defy gravity.
  — Marc Cooper, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Light bends around the gravity of the black hole, which creates the photon ring seen in the image.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• The first is gravity, which is always pulling the object — in our case, a reindeer — to the ground.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• The gravity of a commitment like this is not lost on any of us.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• As a result, the force of gravity becomes too strong and the joint is pulled downward and out of place.
  — Tim Petrie, Dpt, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
• The next speaker put a finer point on the gravity of the occasion.
  — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
• In this movie, Tokyo is cut off from the rest of the world by giant bubbles that defy gravity.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• High ponytails were adorned with even more hair that defied the laws of gravity.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
• In the absence of gravity, fluids shift toward the head.
  — Rachael Seidler, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• My limbs hang, pulled by the gravity of a far larger planet.
  — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
• Near the end of her speech, tears started to flow as the gravity of the moment hit her seemingly all at once.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• And so, even now, no one can say whether our laws of gravity need revision.
  — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• When these clouds collapse under their own gravity and form young stars, the water ends up in the disks around them.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• As a mentee of the late DJ Rashad, the producer understands the gravity of the label’s legacy.
  — Arielle Lana Lejarde, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
• Then, in space, the force of gravity from Earth, Mars, and the sun pulls the spacecraft in different directions.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
• But even this doesn’t compare to jogging under the force of gravity at home.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2024
• The scenario might also tell us why gravity—which sculpts the universe on the largest scales—is so weak compared to the other forces.
  — Steve Nadis, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
• Mass and weight should not be confused—weight depends on the force of gravity, but an object’s mass does not change.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• Dominic Cruz may dive through a hoop as if gravity doesn’t apply to him.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• Be sure to make time for a zen journey in a zero-gravity massage chair.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 26 Feb. 2023
• This means that the pressure pushing the outer layer away from the core loses power against the gravity pulling it in.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• For many, summer fun means thrill rides rule that soar, swirl, and defy gravity.
  — Roxana Saberi, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• Due to the slow rate of change, the myth that old windows are thicker at the bottom due to centuries of gravity pulling on the slowly flowing glass is not true.
  — John Mauro, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• Drivers slip into their cockpits, the starting gate opens and gravity does the rest.
  — Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• In the process, the algorithm can also account for gravity’s pull and, in viscous media, the effect the fluid has on the shape.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2023
• Such implants designed on Earth are imperfect due to the tug of gravity, Ondler says.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• But if the physical nature of this galaxy has changed, the physics of it, the forces that drive it—the urgency, the urges—are constants, no less than gravity and light.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024
• The toppling tiles provide the illusion of control over gravity.
  — Sofia Andrade, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024