"satellite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The gunslinger's card occupied the center of the pattern; each of the following four stood at one corner, like satellites circling a star.
- He would become a burnt-out body, a satellite circling forever the nearest sun . . . A powerful wrench, and air rushed into his battered lungs.
- The global positioning system, consisting of 24 satellites circling the earth in fixed orbits, was created (at great taxpayer expense) for exactly this sort of military application.
- The moon and its daughters, the satellites circling it like tossed coins, were high.
- Iridium would allow people to make or receive calls anywhere on earth using pocket-size wireless phones that will communicate directly through 66 small satellites circling the planet.
- The only thing between us and the satellites circling somewhere overhead was a bright blue sky.
- That same satellite circling a small, rocky habitable planet is quite another.
- The dictators had also succeeded in seizing a huge satellite closely circling the Columbian sun.
- He was staring at the Space Station, the largest of all the satellites now circling Earth, as it raced along its thousand-mile-high orbit.
- His was not the sole satellite still circling Earth, but it was the sole one with life aboard.
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