graveyard orbit

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noun

another name for dump orbit

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Words nearby graveyard orbit

gravesite, gravestone, Gravettian, grave-wax, graveyard, graveyard orbit, graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard stew, graveyard watch, gravicembalo

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How to use graveyard orbit in a sentence

Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Other groups in the progressive orbit are trying out other tactics.
Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016|David Freedlander|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.
To Infinity and Beyond! NASA’s Orion Mission Blasts Off|Matthew R. Francis|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 1763 the chapel was enlarged, and at the same time a little more land was added to the graveyard.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
See that silver spiral going out from Venus and around the table to the orbit of Saturn?
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
Each new orbit out from the sun has cost plenty in money, ships, and lives; it's the admission price.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
I made a short cut across the graveyard of Saint Francis, or I must have met the escort.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler