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How to use the word Velocity in a Sentence?

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The evidence that you’ve heard shows that the defendant became so addicted and so dependent on the velocity of money that the millions of dollars in legal fees that he was receiving was not enough and so he started to steal. He stole by billing personal expenses to the firm ; he stole by stealing from his own family.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The relative velocity between spacecraft and moon will be 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), so we are screaming by pretty fast, all steps have to go like clockwork to successfully acquire our planned data, because soon after the flyby is complete, the spacecraft needs to be reoriented for our upcoming close approach of Jupiter, which happens only 7 ½ hours later.

John Bordi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, velocity has been kind of climbing.

Madison Bumgarner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think there are some misconceptions with... rifles. A lot of people say,' Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from An AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the... velocity.

Acute Care Surgery.Matthew McConaughey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, dig into every throw from the last couple years. Look at the ball velocity, look at the length, look at the accuracy, look at the movement skills and I see no diminishing physical skills.

Frank Reich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This achievement is extremely important, it shows that the radial velocity technique has the potential to unveil a population of light planets, like our own, that are expected to be the most abundant in our galaxy and that can potentially host life as we know it.

Pedro Figueira

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Cargo and containers are at a premium, so we're going to prioritize high-velocity, small items.

Andrew Yanofsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I didn’t really have good fastball velocity, i didn’t feel like I could just reach back and throw it 95 or 96 and blow someone up. It was a lot more trying to be crafty.

Lucas Giolito

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The main thing was the velocity of my fastball wasn’t there, as well as my command of it, and my secondary pitches just weren’t as sharp as always as well.

Yusei Kikuchi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was really hot out there, but I managed to fight through it and got my six innings in, at the beginning of the game, my body felt heavy. It was hard to move around. That’s probably why the (velocity) wasn’t there. As the game went on, I felt better and better, and I think the (velocity) went up.

Shohei Ohtani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a direct response to the escalating strikeout rate, where you’re giving the hitter approximately one one-hundreth of a second of additional time to decide whether to swing at a pitch, which has the effect just in terms of reaction time of reducing the effective velocity of a pitch by roughly 1.5 mph, the purpose of the test and hope is giving hitters even that tiny additional piece of time will allow them to make more contact and reduce the strikeout rate.

Morgan Sword

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The way it plays during the game, I see which of my pitches work for me, today my fastball, the velocity was there for me, so I used it more.

Vintage Ryu

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

John Venable

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that it will leave and head back to interstellar space.

Davide Farnocchia

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The detected coronal mass ejection is 10,000 times more massive than the most extreme solar coronal mass ejections, but not as fast as expected, Solar coronal mass ejections can be ejected at velocities up to a thousand kilometers per second [2.2 million mph], while the detected coronal mass ejection has a velocity of 90 kilometers per second [200,000 mph].

Costanza Argiroffi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The velocity that misinformation gets once something is out there and it is something which captures people's imagination, then it is shared like crazy, and it's that velocity that one needs to arrest, so that the least amount of people are affected.

Pratik Sinha

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The only difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock.

Ralph Nader

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The velocity of growth (in bookings) exceeds what we had seen last year.

Tim Clark

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have seen white supremacists try to recruit on college campuses for years, but what is different today is there has been a velocity and a volume of the efforts that we really have never seen before.

Identity Evropa

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This program is maturing. We're building mass and velocity, capability and confidence.

Jon Davis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think that the velocity of the market moving up seems to be overdone at the moment, the fundamentals are improving, but at a slow and steady pace. There are still headwinds that will keep prices choppy.

Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Ahead of the weekend we're seeing some unwinding of long positions, and less long buying coming in from investors due to the incredible velocity of the yen's appreciation, fast Retailing is also yoking the market this morning.

Gavin Parry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the short term, you'll be paying more than 100 percent on your existing borrows, the shorts are looking for some extreme velocity.

Ihor Dusaniwsky

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one expected this, this kind of understanding of the connection between velocity, time and distance was thought to have emerged only around 1350 AD.

Mathieu Ossendrijver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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