How to Use cosmic in a Sentence

cosmic

adjective
  • The discovery caused a cosmic shift in people's views of the world.
  • How much does matter clump up in our cosmic neighborhood?
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Skywatchers are in for a cosmic treat this month: a rare alignment of four planets in the predawn sky.
    NBC News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Any postseason without the Lakers feels like a breach of a cosmic bond.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Those pages in our cosmic understanding are nearly blank.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The longer the soil was exposed to punishing cosmic radiation and solar wind on the moon, the worse the plants seemed to do.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 May 2022
  • As if their bodies were simply broken and needed to be repaired by a cosmic miracle worker.
    Amy Julia Becker, Time, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Time for the cosmic forces of basketball to press that button on the controller to the big PlayStation 5 in the sky.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
  • As for cosmic weather, the beginning of the week can bring romance to many, encouraging us to snuggle in closer.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That sadly didn’t come to pass, though moviegoers do get to bid adieu to an important character and say hello to a new cosmic supervillain.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Luis Alvarez, a physicist, first explored the idea to probe the pyramid using cosmic rays in the late 1960s.
    NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • The heliosphere bubble shelters life on Earth from destructive cosmic rays the come from supernovas.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Teasing out the imprint of the cosmic web requires precise telescope modeling and careful analysis.
    Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 4 May 2022
  • Euclid this week delivered the first piece of a cosmic map — containing about 100 million stars and galaxies — that will take six years to create.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The unprecedented image could pave the way for documenting the true motion of black holes, which could change our understanding of these extreme cosmic objects.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 May 2022
  • The lunar surface, regularly bombarded by cosmic rays and solar wind, also includes iron particles and tiny fragments of glass.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Season 2 takes this acceptance further, asking Nadia to forgive her mother—and even chose her mother over any cosmic alternative.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Take this as your cosmic cue to roll up your sleeves and put your nose to the grindstone.
    Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • With a new Moon in your work angle on the 15th, startups are in the cosmic spotlight.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Here are some of the cosmic events to keep your eye on with your Valentine (or groundhog).
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Maybe the cosmic joke that is our place in the universe just ain’t that funny anymore.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Even among comic book obsessives, the cosmic Guardians were way down on the D-list.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • The world is big, so on cosmic scales, my little woes don’t matter.
    Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The cycle of hot cosmic love is almost complete, all thanks to the movement of Venus, the Planet of Love.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Stargazers can catch a cosmic wonder this week: five planets lined up in the night sky.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Aluminum-26 forms when a rock is exposed to cosmic rays while sitting on the Earth's surface.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • The authors suspect the jet could have also helped spread magnetism across the cosmic void.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Yet, as fate would have it, the skies opened up by the time Monday morning rolled around and let the sun take center stage just in time for the cosmic event.
    Annie Archer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The cosmic metallic tones created steel gazes, with drool dripping from the corners of the mouth.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 21 Feb. 2024

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