light year

How To Use light year In A Sentence

• They've hit their peak and it's light years ahead of the competition. The Sun
• You can lean on each other's crutches in your twilight years. Times, Sunday Times
• They seem light years away. Times, Sunday Times
• In that span, astronomers have reported more than 500 planets orbiting nearby stars, a gold rush sparked by the 1995 discovery of a large planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, some 51 light years away, by members of a Swiss team. Researchers question discovery of 'Goldilocks' planet
• Extending it out to 30 or even 50 or so light years which would then include nearest giants, Pollux - & its exoplanet "Polydeuces" (34 ly) Capella (42 ly)plus other sun-like F & G type dwarfs would be fantastic. 32 Nearby Stars
• The fish - squid, prawns and scampi - was coated in a delicate batter, light years away from any calamari I've tasted.
• The stars and planets that merrily twinkle, light years away, have inspired song lyrics and poems, become pivotal symbols in religion and have provided an eternal need for man to explore the concept of infinity.
• Their lives were light years apart from those of the military men of the group. Times, Sunday Times
• The University of Texas team found a planet similar in size to Jupiter about 10.5 light years away from Earth orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, a star very similar to the sun.
• At a distance of one light-week, our solar system is lost in the Sun's glare; even farther out is a collection of cometary objects called the Oort Cloud, depicted as a sphere one light year across.