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Example sentences for "immensities"

Lexicographically close words:
immemorial; immemorially; immensa; immense; immensely; immensity; immenso; immensum; immer; immerged
  1. Thus the Hills have at their backs and sides these solid ramparts and face westward the immensities of space.

  2. You look out on a wide smiling grass country, with dips and swales, and brushy river bottoms, and long slopes and hills thrusting up in masses from down below the horizon, and singly here and there in the immensities nearer at hand.

  3. The little safari for the third time crawled its antlike way across the immensities of the veldt.

  4. The immensities filled the world-- the simple immensities of sky and land.

  5. She did go so far as to adopt Philip's opinion that an exclusive occupation of the mind with the immensities rendered life unendurable.

  6. It saves you from being crushed by the immensities as you call them.

  7. He is an egotist but a valuable one, acutely aware of the depths and immensities of his own spirit and of its significant relations to this seething world without.

  8. But they seemed a trifle thin, a trifle superficial and ephemeral just now, in face of the immensities of ocean and sky, and of the ancient mysteries of Life and Death.

  9. Ahead of us marched a rampart of coppery cliffs rising, like all these mountainous walls we had seen, into the immensities of haze.

  10. It is this break in the history of the human race which amazes and daunts us, which "shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation.

  11. But, turning to a more detailed examination of the statement just quoted, it is hardly necessary to discuss the astounding suggestion that man must not take himself too seriously by the side of the immensities of suns and stars.

  12. His inward eye roves over immensities at least as vast as Mr Kipling's outward.

  13. IX Such is the mood which comes over me at times when the pettiness of the past starts up in the presence of these immensities of sea and sky.

  14. Once I even tried to sail through the Immensities with them, and to front the big coming Eternities with them; but I found it would not do.

  15. The immensities appeared only as lights: the higher light, a brilliance of stars; the lower light, a glow of fires.

  16. By its discovery the hitherto accepted limits of the solar system were at once pushed out to twice their former extent, and the hope naturally arose that other planets would quickly reveal themselves in the immensities beyond.

  17. The entire room, however, taken up by these bodies, is as a mere point in the immensities of star-filled space.

  18. These mysterious visitors to our skies come up into view out of the immensities beyond, move towards the sun at a rapidly increasing speed, and, having gone around it, dash away again into the depths of space.

  19. He has latterly introduced that delicate thing, the human soul and conscience, into the play, and you see it precariously fluttering among the immensities of leaping planets.

  20. Beyond the human region, out among those Eternities and Immensities where Carlyle loved to roam, there is that which loves and seeks.

  21. For the earth he substituted the universe, and led men's eyes out among the immensities and eternities.

  22. And as to a swimmer the wavelet that slaps his face and fills his mouth with salt is of more importance than all the immensities below, so we kept to the level of the trifles of life.

  23. After those immensities of sleep, was he now suffering from insomnia?

  24. It had the effect of a little bright light held up against the vague dark immensities of thought and feeling that filled my mind because of my father's death.

  25. Somehow that picture of a narrow canvas tent in the midst of immensities has become my symbol for the whole life of the governing English, the English of India and Switzerland and the Riviera and the West End and the public services.

  26. I was for ever aware of them; their physical manifestations were as great dumb gestures of two living and intelligent Immensities in Nature.

  27. We must seek for some magnitude which is commensurate with these immensities of space; and, in the wonderfully rapid motion of light, astronomy furnishes us with a suitable standard.

  28. She turned from the unanswering immensities and ran down the cliff-path towards Les Solitudes.

  29. It is not for man to depress himself by measuring himself against the eternities and the immensities external to him.

  30. What he has to do is to look inward upon himself, to fathom the eternities and the immensities in his own heart and brain.

  31. In contemplating them we are transported into immensities both of space and time, for the stellar periods measured by these distant universes often overpower in their magnitude the rapid years in which our terrestrial days are estimated.

  32. Millions of suns roll on in the immensities of Space.

  33. We feel that this is the truth, veiled as yet to actual science, and that human races kindred with our own exist there in the immensities of space.

  34. They moved on again past immensities of immensities, and eternities of eternities, until in the dizziness of uncounted galaxies the human heart sank for the last time, and called out: 'End is there none of the universe of God?

  35. Then he makes the other kind four or six feet in diameter, and penetrates the immensities of space thousands of times beyond where his natural eye can pierce, until he sees that God's immensities of worlds are infinite also.


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