9 sentences with 'moon'
Example sentences and phrases with the word moon and other words derived from it.
• « The tidal phenomenon is caused by the attraction of the moon and the sun on the waters of the sea. »
• « Despite its smaller size, the moon exerts almost three times more tidal force than the sun, due to its proximity to the earth. This force is nothing more than the gravitational pull of one star on another. »
• « Every fortnight, coinciding with the full moon or new moon, the high tides - the maximum height of the sea - and the low tides - the minimum height - become more pronounced, which is why they are known as "spring tides" or syzygy tides. »
• « The "discoverer of comets" spent his last twenty years at the head of an observatory through which he studied the moon. »
• « Having a remote cabin on the shore of a lake makes about as much sense as barking at the moon. But this is not about common sense. The cabin is not just a cabin. It is a place in my heart. »
• « Io, Jupiter's natural satellite, is the size of our moon. But its soil composition and chemistry have nothing to do with our satellite: it is a living volcano, a sulphur satellite. »
• « There is a 130-kilometre crater that occupies more than a quarter of the diameter of this Saturnian moon - thought to be the largest ratio of the size of a crater to the surface area of the satellite that shelters it. »