Sentence examples for planetary alignment from inspiring English sources

2. Bad planetary alignment.

It's like a rare and fortuitous planetary alignment.

"Noah and I are going out to see the planetary alignment," I said.

Or perhaps they all know about the planetary alignment that's due in 2008.

This is a rare moment in history, like a planetary alignment: three world religions simultaneously racked by crisis.

In fact, the last big chance may come this Wednesday, when there will be another planetary alignment.

According to the Arab treatises, certain planetary alignments could foster illness by creating miasmas, or clouds of noxious air.

Inevitably, it's the celestial showstoppers -- like the Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 or meteor showers and planetary alignments -- that attract new devotees to this quirky fraternity.

Through the years, there have been many ridiculous claims about planetary alignments - for instance, that they cause earthquakes, or that they briefly allow people on Earth to be weightless.

The site, which features a video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday", which appears to have been prepared for the 22nd, addresses a range of scenarios including, total blackouts, planetary alignments, polar shifts and "a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction".

When "planetary alignments" happen, we marvel at our prowess in being able to predict them, and then go out and gawk at them right on schedule.