This has never been seen before in a comet-like object.    From Wordnik.com.  [ianrandalstrock: Maybe it's a Romulan warbird] Reference

It has a longer comet-like tail, which indicates more general DNA damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference

Astronomers have captured the first image of a comet-like tail behind a star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

One might even picture a number of such comet-like bodies originating from Jupiter itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not a Mountebank] Reference

The dust is apparently created by collisions of comet-like bodies in the cold outer reaches of the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars | Universe Today] Reference

In 1887 (p. 245, Vol. XC.) another sketch appears, comet-like, after an interval of more than twenty years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Now here he stood, hunched over his cane, bald head aglow above the comet-like tail of his long white beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

It made no attempt to answer the signals beamed at it, nor did it make any adjustments to its natural, comet-like orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fountains of Paradise]

A strange comet-like object discovered on January 6, 2010 may actually be the result of a collision between two asteroids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asteroid Collision May Have Created Comet-like Object | Universe Today] Reference

It may have looked comet-like, but it moved 100 degrees while visible, or one hundred degrees in three-quarters of an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

A few seem to be in some kind of comet-like orbit where they pop in every month or two, deposit a verbal turd and then disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The blogging life.] Reference

It was the last startling effulgence of his comet-like genius; for when the spring-flowers came again, he was gone from our earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

The main nucleus of the object, P/2010 A2, is actually located outside its dust halo, something that's never been seen in a comet-like object before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

ASTRONOMERS have recorded a previously unknown galactic phenomenon – the first distant star with a comet-like tail powerful enough to form planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comet Star Leaves Planets in Wake | Impact Lab] Reference

NASA just announced the discovery of a previously unnoticed astronomical phenomenon, a star exhibiting ‘comet-like’ behavior (H/T Personal Demon).    From Wordnik.com.  [A ‘bizzare star’, an incomplete explanation « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, or LINEAR, program sky survey on Jan. 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [ianrandalstrock: Maybe it's a Romulan warbird] Reference

At night, the moon presented, with much greater truth, a comet-like aspect; a pale, and singularly clear, fast travelling shape of fire, trailing streaks of cold flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland] Reference

Their simultaneous smiles were shadowed by concern: concern for the further development and continued existence of the race whose comet-like climb had been suddenly halted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Mission Moluk]

As she walked along the corridor and down the stairs, she seemed to smudge the place with colour, and, directly she entered the dining-hall, comet-like she drew all eyes upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference

By this comet-like Bill, with its long tail of speeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

The flitter seemed to hurtle forward at comet-like speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars, My Brothers] Reference

Image: HST picture of the comet-like object called P/2010 A2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The first puts a comet-like trail on the pointer when it moves.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

In between, there are comet-like phenomena: the so-called stateless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mein Kampf]

Yes, I know we're talking asteroid here not comet even if it does look awfully comet-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

It is when these comet-like intelligences sweep across the world's horizon that we hear of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ziska] Reference

The steady evaporation of gas from the knots on the Helix Nebula causes the comet-like shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

These were days of quick promotion, of comet-like reputations and of great careers cut short.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Isle of Unrest] Reference

The French Revolution still continued, by its comet-like course, to dazzle, alarm, and disturb all Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference

Beethoven, not doing homage but taking part, sharing almost in a creation, comet-like, of stars in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

The head of Hamersley's horse is swept by the mustang's tail, its long, white hair spread comet-like behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference

Somewhere in its midst appeared a dull star, at times brightening as if blown upon or drawn upwards in a comet-like trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference

Our comet-like visit must have seemed to him like a vision, and he watched us, with eyes full of tears, drive away out of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference

The object, glowing in golden light, was moving slowly toward the ground dragging a comet-like tail, said a city bus driver surnamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Hole in Southwest jet blamed on metal fatigue] Reference

Hubble shows the main nucleus of P/2010 A2 lies outside its own halo of dust, which has never been seen before in a comet-like object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

The object, glowing in golden light, was moving slowly toward the ground dragging a comet-like tail, said a city bus driver surnamed Yu.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Hole in Southwest jet blamed on metal fatigue] Reference

A man travelling, comet-like, in splendour and nebulosity, his wild way; whom telescopic Patriotism may long watch, but, without higher mathematics, will not make out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference