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

Rather, Pluto orbits within the Kuiper belt of ice-rich cometlike objects.

From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 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