5 sentences with 'moons'
Example sentences and phrases with the word moons and other words derived from it.
• « The combat between these animals was repeated for several moons and the Chinese monk was able to discover that in their struggle the animals represented the principle of the I Ching: the strong become docile and the docile become strong. »
• « Galileo's first major publication, The Starry Messenger in 1610, demonstrated conclusively that the heavens were full of previously unknown objects (e.g., the moons of Jupiter) and that the planets and moons appeared to be "imperfect" in the same way as the Earth. »
• « If you look to the right, you will see that a single gigantic eye is silently watching us. It looks like that of the Cyclops that Ulysses blinded so that he could continue his journey. But don't panic, we won't have to blind any monsters; this is Mimas, one of Saturn's large moons, an icy ball 390 kilometres across. »
• « But the real star of Saturn's moons is Enceladus, which we will visit after our tour of the moon. »
• « That huge silver and gold coloured ball is Tetis, one of Saturn's small moons. Saturn's moon Thetis is indeed small, only twelve hundred kilometres in diameter, compared to the three thousand four hundred kilometres of our Moon. »