Sentence examples for a distant satellite from inspiring English sources

The music places disembodied, altered voices within a sparse, throbbing track that sounds as if it had been bounced off a distant satellite.

In her novel A GAME OF PERFECTION (Edge/Hades, paper, $16.95), Élisabeth Vonarburg returns to the planet Virginia, introduced in her previous novel "Dreams of the Sea" as a distant satellite of the star Altair, settled by humans and embroiled in the same postcolonial conflicts as its earthly namesake.

And after you find a spot in a distant satellite lot you will get on the shuttle to get in line to buy the tickets before joining the feral scrum for a spot in the lodge so you can buckle your child's boots before you buckle your own.

A diversified livelihood strategy drawing on the small island environment and its coastal and marine resources, income generating activities in a distant satellite village, and significant remittances from employment in other parts of Indonesia underpinned people's capacities to face hazards.

Occasionally, like a message from a distant satellite, I get a DM (direct message) or retweet in reply.

A lonely, distant satellite has captured the very essence of the universe.

For all the criticisms of mass surveillance, we almost seem to want it to be true – to believe that somewhere up in the heavens, a distant spy satellite is watching over us with its beady little lens, giving a shit.

In addition, our test-trenching approach has detected conspicuous differences in the density of artefacts across the landscape, with a large cluster of archaeological material in and around the main trench, and less intense human activity at the same level in the more distant satellite trenches.

But my guess is that some geocachers are also gadget freaks who, like me, marvel at the idea that a device the size of a chocolate bar can, in concert with a network of distant satellites, transform the abstract grid of latitude and longitude lines created by 19th-century astronomers and cartographers into something average folks can grab on to and utilize.

No longer static images, maps have become active interfaces for information exchange, continuously determining where we are in relation to distant satellites and suggesting where we ought to go, says Seth Spielman, a 38-year-old geography professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

But it is now clear that fully realising those benefits depends on putting systems in place to mitigate against deliberate and accidental interference, and to provide an independent backup that does not rely on the delicate trilling of distant satellites.