How to Use the cosmos in a Sentence

the cosmos

noun
  • But, like the rest of the cosmos, the hydrogen gas is moving away.
    Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Or that the current state of affairs here on this earth is shaped and shifted by the placement of the cosmos?
    Samantha Leal, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023
  • But the reason, the study concluded, had nothing to do with the cosmos.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Finding more of them will offer a new way to probe the mysteries of the cosmos.
    Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
  • And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos?
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And age is not just a number, but a tool that could help answer some of the most profound questions about the cosmos.
    WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • About the structure of the cosmos, about the overall format of existence.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Since the nearest town is 87 miles away, there's no light pollution to detract from your view of the cosmos.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There isn’t one star, or one galaxy, or one hydrogen atom in the cosmos.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Staring up at an inky black sky, Galileo is seduced by the mysteries of the cosmos.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • The stars that must align to win a national championship are not located in the cosmos, but rather the four-stars and the five-stars on the field.
    USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • So Diego’s team and others are searching for the ghostly outlines of dark objects in the cosmos.
    Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • What is clear is that these projects have given astronomers a completely new tool with which to study the cosmos.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Since it was launched into space, images from the telescope have shown the scale and complexity of the cosmos.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • For the first couple hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a hot, thick soup of mostly matter and light.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And this has a direct effect on how matter is distributed in the cosmos.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The more astronomers know about how star systems like TOI-700 and our own solar system work, the better the chances of detecting life out in the cosmos.
    Joey Rodriguez - Michigan State University, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Two stage pieces that represent the moon later double as a wall for Charlie Brown and Snoopy to sit on an gaze into the cosmos.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Stellar nurseries are among the most complex (and, in my opinion, the most beautiful) objects in the cosmos.
    Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • With a smile that can light up the cosmos, the almost 90-pound pup is a gentle soul who leans into petting and never says no to a little snack.
    The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, the discovery of water ice would contribute to our knowledge of the cosmos.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos.
    Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, our own 10-billion-year-old Milky Way may contain ancient stars that predate the galaxy and that are as old as the cosmos itself.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • These waves can reveal the kinds of black holes scattered across the cosmos, which will help astronomers figure out how galaxies grow and change.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Living in the countryside in Scotland, Diana Garland doesn’t spend much time keeping up with the stars — or, at least not the ones outside of the cosmos.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The pair took it as a sign from the cosmos, and decided to enter into business together.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Star: Gemini, with The Star card appearing as your guide this month, the cosmos is shining its blessings upon you.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
  • At the very largest scales in the cosmos, galaxies form clusters and superclusters in a web-like pattern known as… well, the cosmic web.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Ultimately, the project found and studied more than 1,500 of the telltale stellar explosions, many of them with high redshifts from the far depths of the cosmos.
    Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Then, let that sense of foreignness fuel a deeper, fuller understanding of just how many places there are in the world, each with their own unique view of the cosmos.
    Simon Henriques, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023

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