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Example sentences for "galaxy"

Lexicographically close words:
galant; galantine; galar; galas; galaxies; galbanum; gale; galea; galeas; galeasses
  1. Some day, if he keeps on like this, he's going to be known all over the galaxy because of what he'll do in mechanics.

  2. Look at him shine," he cried, stretching out his arm towards the heavens, where the glittering galaxy hung near the zenith.

  3. When the curtain rose for the third act there was exposed a star-sown sky, in which the galaxy of Orion was shown with distinctness, each star sharply twinkling from the electric power behind- a pretty scene evoking great applause.

  4. Many a time thereafter Terry O'Ryan and Molly Mackinder looked at the galaxy in the evening sky with laughter and with pride.

  5. Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band-box.

  6. Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them.

  7. When he has walked out, Mr. Guppy, in a great perspiration, nerves himself to the hasty completion of the taking down of the Galaxy Gallery, concluding with Lady Dedlock.

  8. There were twenty-two in all, but from the glittering galaxy he chose but one.

  9. Once Kerak is armed, this entire area of the galaxy is in peril.

  10. Outwardly, the peace of the galaxy was assured; but beneath the glossy surface of the Terran Commonwealth there smoldered the beginnings of a volcano.

  11. In fact, the entire galaxy is endangered.

  12. Our galaxy is a bit of specialized tissue--part of a ganglion, maybe.

  13. I'll start with the striking fact that, on every out-galaxy planet we visited, the human beings were Homo sapiens to N decimal places.

  14. I wish I knew something about biochemical embryology; but I read somewhere that ova are sterile, so our galaxy is an ovum.

  15. I am not here as an invader in any sense, but only as a citizen of the First Galaxy of this, our common universe.

  16. Besides, she thinks the whole galaxy is fairly crawling with double-Primes.

  17. No drive that takes 'a few weeks' for an intra-galaxy hop is ever going to get us back to Tellus.

  18. We are trying now, by charting the galaxies throughout billions of cubic parsecs of space, to find merely the direction in which our own galaxy lies.

  19. In next Galaxy I give Nasby's friend and mine from Philadelphia (John Quill, a literary thief) a "hyste.

  20. I have written the Galaxy people that I will never furnish them another article long or short, for any price but $500.

  21. The reference to the Galaxy in the foregoing letter has to do with a department called Memoranda, which he had undertaken to conduct for the new magazine.

  22. I am just as busy as I can be--am still writing for the Galaxy and also writing a book like the "Innocents" in size and style.

  23. But day before yesterday I concluded to go out of the Galaxy on the strength of it, so I have turned it into the last Memoranda I shall ever write, and published it as a "specimen chapter" of my forthcoming book.

  24. They have been our lights for half a century, and now that they have taken their permanent place in the galaxy of song, will continue to shine there, to use the phrase which Whittier himself invented for Dr.

  25. Mitchell was the third pastor of the South Street Presbyterian Church, which was the fifth, says our historian, "in our galaxy of churches.

  26. There's a galaxy of 'ifs' in this Sargol proposition.

  27. There were no prolonged greetings between the two parties, no offer of hospitality as might have been expected between Terrans on an alien planet a quarter of the Galaxy away from the earth which had given them a common heritage.

  28. And--which was what first endeared them to the Salariki--when worn against the skin and warmed by body heat they gave off a perfume which enchanted not only the Sargolian natives but all in the Galaxy wealthy enough to own one.

  29. When Napoleon had finished his work this empire had ceased to exist, except as a tradition, and the great galaxy of sovereign states was reduced to thirty-nine.

  30. Perhaps the most successful branch of recent French literature is history, around which a brilliant galaxy of great names has gathered.

  31. On land the efforts of Napoleon were seconded by the intrepidity of a galaxy of heroes, Ney, Murat, Moreau, Massena, and other men of fame.

  32. The Poets of Great Britain=] Unlike the United States, Great Britain came to the nineteenth century with a great galaxy of famous writers, leading back through many centuries.

  33. If he wants to we'll play tag half way across the galaxy with him.

  34. The galaxy has long since been conquered and now the distant stars await the probing of Earthmen.

  35. When man had journeyed throughout the galaxy there would still be surprises waiting for him when he came to the other side.

  36. Though Sir William Herschel was able to fathom the Galaxy in most of its tracts, yet there were regions which his great telescopes were unable to penetrate entirely through.

  37. These consist of vast aggregations of stars which form separate 'island universes' floating in the depths of space; they are believed to equal in magnitude and magnificence the Milky Way--the galaxy to which our system belongs.

  38. In the accomplishment of this object, to which he devoted a considerable part of his life, he undertook a systematic survey of that portion of the Galaxy which is visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

  39. In his 'Nuncius Sidereus' he gives an account of his observations of the Galaxy and expresses his satisfaction that he has been enabled to terminate an ancient controversy by demonstrating to the senses the stellar structure of the Milky Way.

  40. A rich portion of the Galaxy lies in front of the nebula, which creates an effect as if it were studded over with stars.

  41. They appear a regular galaxy of beauty and splendour, and so many glorious evidences of the great Creator's handiwork.

  42. He rose rapidly to eminence in the midst of this galaxy of talent and learning.

  43. Urry, the pupil of Dean Aldrich, and the friend of Bishop Atterbury, appears to have been one of that galaxy or confederacy of wits called "the Wits of Christ Church.

  44. As the general plane of the Galaxy makes a large angle with our equator, the Milky Way is continually changing its angle with the horizon, so that it rises at different elevations.

  45. They are so distributed as to be most numerous in a zone inclined about 18 degrees to the celestial equator, and split in two near where the cleft in the Galaxy is located.

  46. Marked symmetry with reference to this plane makes it evident that the entire system of globular clusters is associated with the Galaxy itself.

  47. Indeed, if all the stars visible in a 12-inch telescope could be conceived as blotted out, nearly all the stars that are left would be found in the Galaxy itself.

  48. The larger the telescope we employ, the greater the number of stars that are seen as we approach the Galaxy on either side; and the farther we recede from the Galaxy and approach either of its poles fewer and fewer stars are found.

  49. An additional great problem of the Galaxy is a purely dynamical one.

  50. Quite certainly all parts of the Galaxy are not at the same distance, and probably there are branches in some regions that lie behind one another.

  51. By combining the available photographs of the Galaxy, he has produced a chart which indicates in a general way how the stellar aggregations might all be arrayed so as to give the effect of the Galaxy as we see it.

  52. Filled with incidents of domestic life in heroic times, the Odyssey presents us a galaxy of women, if not more impressive, at any rate more brilliant than that of the Iliad.

  53. Nyjord is a fine planet, but a gentle guiding hand behind the scenes is needed, to help them find their place in the galaxy before they are pulverized.

  54. You're just another failure in a galaxy full of failures!

  55. Here is the idea I want you to consider: Why is it that the people of Anvhar in a galaxy filled with warring, hate-filled, backward planets, should be the only ones who base their entire existence on a complicated series of games?

  56. That's the trouble with being a vegetable eater in a galaxy of carnivores.

  57. How can you possibly prove that I am the only person in the galaxy who can help you?

  58. I would not have left him for a galaxy of kings and princes.

  59. It was only a woman, passing tall among women, with the form and carriage of Juno; a woman in a Turkish dress, glittering from brow to waistband with a galaxy of diamonds, which flashed from the gorgeous background of an embroidered robe.

  60. Lady Polwhele, a stout matron of fifty, revealing a bedaubed complexion and a galaxy of patches; "I saw you sneak away.

  61. When the curtain rose for the third act there was exposed a star-sown sky, in which the galaxy of Orion was shown with distinctness, each star sharply twinkling from the electric power behind-a pretty scene evoking great applause.

  62. All nine of the principal ones, crossing the Galaxy between the Allied Systems and the Darzent Empire, pass within a parsec of Onzar.

  63. I do not know if his dream of complete domination of the Galaxy can be realized.

  64. You already know that it frees man for flight through the Galaxy at an average speed ten times greater than that now possible with the present warp-line drive.

  65. It's only a parsec from the confluence of nine lines running between our part of the Galaxy and the Darzent Empire.

  66. Theoretically, we could force our way out of the whirlpool and go through the center of the Galaxy by a different route.

  67. Whoever controls Onzar can win the war for the Galaxy when it comes.

  68. But I like the Allied Systems as well as anything the Galaxy has to offer and I want to live there.

  69. Between them they gave away the most important secrets of the Galaxy to an enemy, a man of endless, pathologic ambition.

  70. All had as a common basis the assumption that Homo sapiens had sometime, somewhere, in the very remote past, originated on one planet and then had spread out over the Galaxy from it.

  71. The chance of solving the mystery of how man spread all over the Galaxy in prehistoric times will be too strong for them.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "galaxy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.