CONSTELLATION in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for CONSTELLATION, such as:
1. The constellations in the night sky cannot be directly equated with the heroes of Greek mythology.
2. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with heaven and constellations in the intervals.
2. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with heaven and constellations in the intervals.
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Meanings and Examples of CONSTELLATION
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constellation
n. a configuration of stars as seen from the earth
n. an arrangement of parts or elements
Classic Sentence:
1 I admired the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants; and such a constellation of virtues, in such amiable persons, produced in me the highest veneration.
2 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
3 With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
4 He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with heaven and constellations in the intervals.
5 Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
6 A few constellations here and there in the deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight.
7 All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings.
8 For neither did the stars show their fires, nor was the vault of constellated sky clear; but vapours blotted heaven, and the moon was held in a storm-cloud through dead of night.
Example Sentence:
1 The brightened comet in the constellation Virgo may even be visible to the naked eye, allowing members of the public around the world to join in this historic moment in astronomy.
2 The constellations in the night sky cannot be directly equated with the heroes of Greek mythology.