Get to know Orb better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like eyeball or capsule.
Orb in a sentence
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Orb meaning
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
Using Orb
- The main meaning on this page is: A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- Useful related words include: eyeball, capsule, ball, globe.
- In the example corpus, orb often appears in combinations such as: the orb, orb of, an orb.
Context around Orb
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Orb
- In this selection, "orb" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blue, eternal, glowing, mutilates, wielder and touching stand out and add context to how "orb" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and no orb wielder would and at binghamton orb account through. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "orb" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with orb
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A long-haired man holding a mystical glowing orb. (9 words)
And no orb-wielder would be complete without the blue Orb of Destruction. (13 words)
Concerned that the shiny orb might be a Japanese balloon weapon, the captain ordered it shot down. (17 words)
One of the seven, Aldur, fashions an orb from stone and creates within it a "living soul"; but his brother Torak seizes the Orb from Aldur and tries to subdue its intelligence, whereupon the Orb mutilates the left side of Torak's body. (43 words)
Kepler also found a formula relating the size of each planet's orb to the length of its orbital period : from inner to outer planets, the ratio of increase in orbital period is twice the difference in orb radius. (39 words)
Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast early this month was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities. (39 words)
Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself? (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
One of the seven, Aldur, fashions an orb from stone and creates within it a "living soul"; but his brother Torak seizes the Orb from Aldur and tries to subdue its intelligence, whereupon the Orb mutilates the left side of Torak's body.
And no orb-wielder would be complete without the blue Orb of Destruction.
But I know in my heart that it's not the Orb's fault things have gotten so weird, for the simple reason that rampant weirdness predates the Orb-touching by years.
Because Cherek's youngest son Riva is able to hold the Orb unharmed, he and his descendants protect the Orb from Torak.
Kepler also found a formula relating the size of each planet's orb to the length of its orbital period : from inner to outer planets, the ratio of increase in orbital period is twice the difference in orb radius.
After seeing the lives that were going to be lost and Thanos' rash solution, he likely realized that he couldn't be an audience to so much life lost, and thus stole the Prime Eternal orb and fled.
A long-haired man holding a mystical glowing orb.
Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself?
At left-center in the image, to the left of clouds of reddish gas, is a bright blue orb.
Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast early this month was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
Concerned that the shiny orb might be a Japanese balloon weapon, the captain ordered it shot down.
In its human form, the orb is given the name Fushi by his mother figure, who meets a tragic end.
In the future, I would likely opt for Vivienne Westwood-inspired stickers instead of the actual orb.
Like the only other Epic item that's winnable through the Faire, the character needs to be at least level 60 to equip the Orb.
Marie Lichtenberg’s Clover Orb 18K rose gold, black rhodium, multicolor sapphires, tsavorites, diamonds with enamel four-leaf clover inside (open shot).
Move the orb over to the edge of the platform where a large sludge-covered cube is jutting out from the ground, then use a Splash Fruit or Chuchu Jelly arrow to wash the sludge off the cube.
Other significant coronation items include The Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross and The Sovereign’s Orb, both having long-standing roles in the ceremony.
Researchers from Southwest University in China have constructed the entire chromosomal-scale genome assembly and complete spidroin gene set of the golden orb-weaving spider, Trichonephila clavata, known for its especially strong, golden-colored webs.
She accessorised the look with a three-strand pearl choker also by a British designer label, featuring a diamond-encrusted pendant shaped like the Sovereign’s Orb in the centre.
Students who want to be published must create an open repository at Binghamton (ORB) account through the journal’s website.
Common combinations with orb
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the orb 27×
- orb of 8×
- an orb 6×
- orb in 5×
- blue orb 4×
- orb and 4×
- orb from 3×
- orb to 3×
- sovereign orb 3×
- orb that 3×