How to Use velocity in a Sentence

velocity

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  • The slope of this second fit gives a velocity of 7.7 km/s.
    — WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Much of pitching is physics: how to leverage your body to get the most torque, and thus velocity.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Marsh saw his changeup velocity sit around 87-88 mph — the sweet spot he’s looked for in camp.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But the velocity has been down a tick (to 94.5 mph on average) and he’s struggled to trust it.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • To them, the years have whistled past with the screaming velocity of a Josh Allen spiral.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The Vikram-S reached a maximum velocity of Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, according to the video.
    — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • There has been a lot of velocity both on my Facebook page and through my website.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The air that is near the inlet cowl moves at a much higher velocity than air that is farther from the inlet.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Third, the hand must also be on the back of the ball to give it forward velocity, but not too far back to prevent the necessary torque for the spin.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Thanks to the velocity of pop culture, new bands are getting hyped more and more in the mainstream media.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The velocity on his sinker has dipped a worrisome 2.3 miles per hour since ‘21.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The pressure in the pipe could be incorrect, meaning the exit velocity of the gas isn’t quite right, or high winds could cause the flame to flicker.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time, high-velocity winds had created a cavity around the white dwarf.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That said, Sale’s velocity in April is likely to be low by his standards.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Souza took a close 2-2 pitch to work a full count before his first home run, which left the bat at 98 miles per hour for his lowest exit velocity of the night.
    — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The more wave peaks that pass that point, the better our estimation of each wave’s velocity.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This gives the train a starting velocity of 27 meters per second, or 60 miles per hour.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Trailing by one, Yasmani Grandal hit a grounder with a 102.4 exit velocity back up the middle.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the day’s first game, his outing on the mound had ended early, after an inning and a third—his velocity was down, the shape of his pitches not quite right.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The terminal velocity of a large screen-down iPhone, according to Watts, would be about 30 mph.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Lyles looked to improve his velocity and went through a training program at the complex.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The air will exert a significant backwards-pushing force that changes with the velocity of the roach.
    — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Firing laser pulses from a satellite is the best way to measure wind velocity.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The hospitalization came after Kaiser ripped the top of her finger off and was later hit in the face with a high-velocity slingshot.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The ocean’s importance may seem obvious now, but at the time researchers were more focused on flow velocity than on what happened when the glacier reached the ocean.
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The Twins had a 91.1 mph average exit velocity against him.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Leone, who throws his slider as much as his fastball, grades out below average in terms of velocity, but ranked in the 100th percentile in chase rate.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • If his velocity had been limited by a health issue that can be resolved, the 26-year-old could be a mid-rotation starter.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Cortes had a season-high eight strikeouts, walked one, and threw 64 pitches while showing a slight uptick in fastball velocity.
    — Larry Fleisher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The only information the hammer seems to convey from a key to a string is a single number—velocity.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023

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