How to use "planet" in a sentence

Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

The planet Mars, I need not remind the reader, goes around the sun at an average distance of 224,000,000 kilometres, and receives from the sun half of the light and heat that is received by this world

Mars is getting colder, as one day our planet must too

And looking across space, with instruments and minds more powerful than we can dream of, they see, at a distance of only 56,000,000 kilometres, a morning star of hope - our own warmer planet with its green land and grey seas, its cloudy atmosphere and its growing population.

And before we criticize them for thinking in this way, we must remember how badly we have treated not only the animals of this planet, but also other people

During 1894, a great light was seen on the surface of the planet by a number of astronomers

Towards midnight on 12 August, one astronomer noticed a great cloud of hot gas on the surface of the planet

He was very excited at the news and invited me to spend the night with him, watching the red planet.

Looking through the telescope, I saw a circle of deep blue with the little round planet in the centre

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

I told Ogilvy, and he took my place and watched the cloud of gas growing as it rose from the surface of the planet

Thick clouds of smoke or dust, which looked like little grey, moving spots through a powerful telescope on Earth, spread through the clearness of the planet's atmosphere and hid its more familiar features.

At that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the Thing had come from the planet Mars, and I felt impatient to see it opened

The morning papers on Saturday contained, in addition to a great deal of information about the planet Mars, one very short report.

Every time the planet Mars comes near to us, I worry that they might try again

It should be possible to find the position of the gun from which the shots came, to watch this part of the planet carefully and be ready.

We have learned that we cannot think of this planet as a safe home for humans

Perhaps, across the great distances of space, the Martians have watched what happened to the ones that landed on Earth and learned their lesson - and have found a safer home on the planet Venus

Before it there was a general belief that there was no life in space apart from on our tiny planet