How to Use planetary in a Sentence

planetary

adjective
  • Read on for when and how to spot the 2024 planetary parade.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
  • Saturn holds the overnight planetary spotlight for most of the month.
    Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This planetary shift, from April 1 through May 13, is like a bad April fool’s joke.
    Essence Lifestyle, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
  • For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
    Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The relations of human beings—some of them at least—to the rest of planetary life had shifted.
    Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Season three jumps ahead a decade to the early 1990s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
  • In the past, Juno has also studied Jupiter's planetary rings.
    Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This event, while cool and a bit uncommon, is not a true planetary alignment.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The planetary trio will appear slightly above it, forming a triangle with Mars to the right and the other two planets to the left of the moon just a bit.
    Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In Season 3, the series moved into the early ‘90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2022
  • Rao explains that the planetary positioning with each other and the sun will block most chances of a clear view.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 28 May 2024
  • Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This is the highest planetary moon-count in our solar system.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Don’t Look Up isn’t a movie about climate change, but one about planetary defense from errant rocks in space.
    Rebecca Oppenheimer, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But the question of planetary boundaries is a topic for another time, so back to Unilever.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Here’s what to know about the upcoming planetary alignment.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Studying the dust belts can help unlock more of the secrets behind how planetary systems form.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • The planetary phenomenon is expected to be arranged in the shape of an arc.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • To see Earth’s future, astronomers turn to a crystal ball filled with alien planetary systems.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • InSight was built to do more than study Mars alone; it was designed to provide new clues to planetary evolution as a whole.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But planetary warming also likely strengthened the force and height of Beryl’s waves.
    Scott Dance, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • What are some of the challenges of producing a life narrative about Whitney, who reached fame on a planetary scale?
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The ways that our non-human planetary neighbors adapt may offer clues (or warnings) for us.
    Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Jack Wisdom, a planetary scientist at MIT who led the latest study, told me.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Bd wasn’t always thought of as a permanent planetary scourge.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • According to experts, the planetary alignment can be seen best about an hour before the sunrise while looking to the East.
    Ebony Williams, ajc, 13 June 2022
  • It’s the first test of a new planetary-defense system that NASA has created to help keep asteroids in check.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Christmas doesn't end well for Keira Knightley and her ensemble cast at the end of Silent Night, as the whole world gets a royal lump of coal in the form of planetary destruction.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • This layer of water, not the planetary cores, would then be responsible for producing the disordered magnetic fields of the two planets.
    Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But today, perhaps because of the scale of planetary challenges as well as to the material inequalities evident among and within states, a backlash against this trend has surfaced.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024

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