How to Use firmament in a Sentence

firmament

noun
  • And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters . . . .
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • To hear my colleagues in the media tell it, Swift’s reign in the pop firmament is over.
    Andy Hermann, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 May 2018
  • How can the things that sparkle in the firmament be held to account for humans’ fleshy flaws?
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Hartigan was one of the biggest stars in the firmament of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1950s.
    Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But the mid-tier bank has always been an odd beast in Japan’s banking firmament.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Dozens of hot-air balloons that paint the firmament with color.
    chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2019
  • That Pigasse is the one leaving says much about where his star is currently placed in the firmament of the French elite.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • In the Hebrew Bible, God makes his presence felt as a voice in the firmament, as a whirlwind, as thunder.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • According to its court artists, their hometown belongs in the firmament of the gods.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Who of the existing superstar firmament is gonna be a big deal in 10 years?
    Recode Staff, Recode, 12 June 2018
  • Stella, a down-on-her-luck star and Cole’s ex-wife, is looking to reclaim her place in the Tinsel Town firmament.
    Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • In the last few decades, the deli, once a fixture in New York’s culinary firmament, has started to feel like a vanishing species.
    Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2017
  • With The Exorcist, his place in the firmament was secured, and Billy used his status to take risks.
    James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • So two of the stars in ABC’s glittering firmament were able to publicly quash any feud rumors.
    Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
  • His father, Habib Bazzi, started the restaurant in 2009, and it’s now part of Dearborn’s food firmament.
    New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • At this point, there is no such player in the Hollywood firmament.
    Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • But some wildcats filled a real gap in the cartridge firmament.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2020
  • At this time, Mozart and fellow Austrian Joseph Haydn were the twin suns of the musical firmament.
    National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • What's more, in the middle of this test, the firmament over Michigan divested itself of six inches of snow, slush, and ice.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Where precisely Lavin’s book fits in this firmament may, at first, seem a bit unclear.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • It’s like a magnet; the United States still is the polar star in the firmament even if the world has changed a lot and there are a lot of stresses on these institutions.
    Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's bleakly glittery film about a pop singer's ascent to stardom, all is not well in the firmament.
    Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Rorty was more than two decades my senior and highly accomplished, one of the stars in the academic firmament.
    Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • More impressive, though, is the series’ use of its prime place in the cultural firmament to underscore the point.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • With his place in the pop-culture firmament cemented, Mr. Soul was able to make good on his longtime ambitions to be a pop star.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Here, even those most firmly ensconced in the firmament speak with a blunt directness that keeps the show racing forward.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • To my mind, what Tepper had to say also has a bearing on several other matters in the firmament over the past few days.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • Legitimacy was the wild card, the disrupter, the third sun in the Stalinist Cold War firmament.
    John Lewis Gaddis, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2024
  • To take on someone who looms so large in the cultural firmament is no enviable task.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But not everyone in the state’s political firmament has pounced.
    Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024

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