How to Use cosmic in a Sentence

cosmic

adjective
  • The discovery caused a cosmic shift in people's views of the world.
  • The world is big, so on cosmic scales, my little woes don’t matter.
    Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Both use my cosmic coat-hanger technique to locate the comet.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Four of the five galaxies within it are locked in a cosmic dance of close encounters.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • This is the source of the rift in cosmic history, the darkness where astronomers wander.
    Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
  • Five galaxies in a cosmic dance, 290 million light-years away.
    Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • Perhaps that meteor brought some cosmic good fortune to the region.
    Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Aluminum-26 forms when a rock is exposed to cosmic rays while sitting on the Earth's surface.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • When the moon’s orbit brings it closer to Earth than usual, the cosmic combo is called a supermoon.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The idea is that a mile of dirt and rock, a giant tank, a second tank and the purest titanium in the world will block nearly all the cosmic rays and particles that zip around — and through — all of us every day.
    Seth Borenstein, ajc, 7 July 2022
  • These questions of cosmic materials are on top of existing scientific inquiries about things like star age, size, temperature, and more.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
  • The cosmic objects are officially the first targets for the latest telescope that NASA launched.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • Be inspired by quasars, supermoons and ultraviolet cosmic fractals.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • Its five episodes illustrate such events as one cosmic impact the Earth sustained that is thought to be 100 million times larger than the one that is believed to have killed the dinosaurs.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Most people working in the field, however, have been convinced by the dramatic uptick in galactic cosmic rays and plasma density the Voyagers measured.
    Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • Is the mysterious force created by extraterrestrials, bio-cosmic radiation, a particularly wide hole in the ozone or a trick of the eye?
    Tanya Ward Goodman, Washington Post, 26 May 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Life is cruel, all is vanity, the house always wins and the cosmic joke is on us.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • And that brings us back to Europa, the moon that first forced a reimagining of the cosmic context in which Earth’s seas exist.
    WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023

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