Example Sentences

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Before that, though, a massive asteroid the size of a skyscraper will whiz by Earth inside the moon’s orbit.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023

Powered by two 7.3-metre-wide solar panels, Lucy will whiz past each asteroid at 6 to 9 kilometres per second, taking measurements including the asteroid’s colour, composition, spin and mass.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021

Skirball, the blazingly inventive English company Forced Entertainment will whiz through 36 Shakespeare plays.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2018

As it flies through the Pluto system, New Horizons will be going more than 30,000 miles an hour—so fast that the spacecraft will whiz by Pluto’s face in just three minutes.

From National Geographic • Jul. 14, 2015

With the aid of electromagnets, they will whiz along at speeds of around 300 m. p. h.

From Time Magazine Archive