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 led the development of one of the instruments on NASA’s Messenger spacecraft that had orbited Mercury, but Dr. Zurbuchen had never worked at NASA.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

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

The Soviet ambassador introduced Pushinka, daughter to Strelka, who had orbited earth in a Soviet spacecraft.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin