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
• Last year, Elon Musk seemed to have escaped the force of gravity.
  — Time, 8 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Once the earthquake was over, the columns would return to the center of their bases due to gravity.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Aug. 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
• The Pinewood Derby is a gravity race held on a straight, multi-lane track.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• Plot has to be like gravity, a constant, pulling on you to turn every page.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• 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
• In the long run, kids can’t really win the game, as gravity inevitably wins out.
  — Sean Trende, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But at the same time, there is also a lot of play with it too and sort of letting go of the gravity and have fun creating it as well.
  — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
• Be sure to make time for a zen journey in a zero-gravity massage chair.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 26 Feb. 2023
• But gravity is catching up with stocks in October, which tends to be a volatile month.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
• To study the effects of low gravity conditions on the human heart in preparation for long-term space travel.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024