How to Use cosmic in a Sentence

cosmic

adjective
  • The discovery caused a cosmic shift in people's views of the world.
  • They’re also engaged in a cosmic struggle in their minds.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • This principle may be right and Russia wrong in a cosmic sense.
    W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But some of its auroras only make an appearance when screaming winds shoot across the north pole—a bit like a gust of air stirring up a cosmic bonfire.
    Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Earth is constantly being bombarded by cosmic radiation, most of it from our own Sun.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Even in his Lear’s final moments, Branagh, despite the God’s eye above him, chooses the literal over the cosmic.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • With Venus and Mars, the cosmic forces of raw creation sitting next to no-nonsense Pluto all week, we are bound to feel ambitious.
    Narayana Montúfar, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • This type of cosmic event is called an airburst because a comet or meteorite explodes high in the Earth's atmosphere, instead of striking the surface.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Ultimately, string theory remains a hopeful candidate for putting all the pieces of the cosmic puzzle together.
    Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital, a recluse sits translating Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop as cosmic chaos presses in on him.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Their behavior can be affected, studies show, by factors ranging from cosmic rays to ocean microbes, which emit sulfur particles that become the nuclei of water droplets or ice crystals.
    Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Regulatory limits on annual exposure around nuclear plants are less than a year’s background radiation from rocks and cosmic rays.
    Robert Hargraves, WSJ, 26 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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 fetch rover will find these samples and, like a cosmic game of pick-up-sticks, grab them, stow them, and then return them to the lander.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 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
  • Skywatchers are in for a cosmic treat this month: a rare alignment of four planets in the predawn sky.
    NBC News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • This is the source of the rift in cosmic history, the darkness where astronomers wander.
    Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
  • Kicking off August's cosmic calendar was the Sturgeon Moon, the first full moon of the month on Aug. 1 .
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023

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