Unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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Examples for "ly"
Examples for "ly"
1Ensn Smith lookd about and got something to ly on and in.
2But when he had a task to do, he did it faith-ful-ly.
3Scott pointed to his computer and Tyrone shook his head violent- ly.
4You may now ly and sleep till the day be far spent!
5The lilt in his voice cut the edge in the room, momentari- ly.
1Note that the Centauris are the only stars inside the five-light-year sphere.
2By your figuring, we shouldn't be yet one light-year on the way.
3A light-year measures distance in space and equals 6 trillion miles.
4That expedition perished after less than a light-year when its hydroponics system failed.
5Instead we use the light-year, which is the distance light travels in a year.
1Parthenon was only six months ago, but you're dozens of light-years away.
2The inner is at the distance of six light-years around the sun.
3Worry faded when she saw the wormhole was only thirteen light-years long.
4Fortunately, it is a safe and comfortable ten thousand light-years from us.
5I envisaged transporting a Saturn-sized planet five hundred light-years as a test.
6Three jumps later, spanning seven light-years, they were alone in interstellar space.
7We now made six closely spaced jumps of a few light-years apiece.
8The nearest fixed star with an available planet is eight-hundred-fifty light-years away.
9Two hundred light-years behind the Pilgrimage fleet, eight relay stations failed simultaneously.
10It's a spiral galaxy sitting some half a billion light-years from Earth.
11They're on Terra, five hundred light-years, six months' ship voyage each way.
12Most artifact passengers did it to help pass the long light-years.
13It was difficult to believe that I was many light-years distant from England.
14This was light-years ahead of Atari, went the message: It has a robot!
15These people appear to have come from several hundred light-years away.
16Previous versions plotted the locations of galaxies within 7 billion light-years of Earth.
Translations for light-years