orbit
noun
the curved path, usually elliptical, taken by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
had orbited
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past perfectof orbit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
He had orbited Earth 7,075 times and traveled nearly 187 million miles, according to the New Mexico Museum of Space History.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Apollo 8 had orbited the moon in 1968, but, as Armstrong remarked, correcting course and landing on the moon was “far and away the most complex part of the flight”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2019
Stephanie Somerville, 27, and Andy Longosz, 28, had orbited each other for years.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
Skylab, a 77-ton, 26-meter-long chunk of metal, had orbited Earth for six years.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
