cometlike
- a word derived from comet.
Example Sentences
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Measuring at about 3.2 miles wide, the asteroid may have broken off of a comet, according to NASA, now forming a cometlike tail when it gets close to the sun.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
The solar system includes the distant Oort cloud, a spherical collection of cometlike bodies bound by the sun's gravity that may stretch halfway to the closest star.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022
This is where the solar wind ions abruptly slow as they press outward against the surrounding interstellar matter and swerve to create a cometlike tail.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2017
With no magnetosphere to protect it, the atmosphere of Venus is continuously being blown off by the solar wind in a long, invisible, cometlike tail.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2015
Was it all the I’s that did it or the mental picture that streaked cometlike across the unfocused lens of her mind?
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
