How to Use cosmic in a Sentence

cosmic

adjective
  • The discovery caused a cosmic shift in people's views of the world.
  • 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
  • Stargazers can catch a cosmic wonder this week: five planets lined up in the night sky.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Three rocky planets orbited the red dwarf YZ Ceti, a cosmic stone’s throw away.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Such black holes wouldn’t be expected to change much over the course of cosmic history.
    Byadam Mann, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Even on the largest cosmic scale, resources may well be limitless.
    David Deutsch, WSJ, 20 July 2023
  • This cosmic alignment only happens during a new moon phase when the sun and the moon are perfectly aligned in the sky.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Astronomy fans who want to catch a glimpse of the cosmic show only have a brief window.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But all the other ones will all just disappear out through a cosmic horizon.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Just it's—the cosmic potential and the littleness and the possibility of what this thing might be is there all the time.
    WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Taurus April 20 – May 20 Beep, beep — that’s your cosmic alarm clock, Taurus!
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Guardian of the East and the sunrise, the dragon is wise yet unpredictable, symbolizing the forces of chaos and cosmic order.
    Longreads, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But his story is also of one swept along in the cosmic flow — the bomb would certainly have been made without him, at some point.
    Charles Oppenheimer, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • That cosmic display will be seen across large swaths of North America.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Where the smooth landscape of spacetime meets the discrete, uncertain realm of the quanta, space and time get chopped up in a cosmic scale Cuisinart.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Teyana Taylor and Mary J. Blige were spotted with textured cosmic blue tones.
    Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
  • That could mean things other than gas are falling into the black hole, and that a kind of cosmic wind could be causing turmoil in the region.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • The telescope named for Edwin Hubble captures these cosmic pileups all the time.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To do this, the teams used pulsars, rapidly spinning stellar corpses that serve as perfect cosmic clocks.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Barring, of course, some cosmic catastrophe that both Manilow and Sussman joke about.
    Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But an even larger cosmic issue lingers: Did the universe have a beginning at all?
    James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • Water’s cosmic odyssey began hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024

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