Example sentences for: astronomer

How can you use “astronomer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Take time to explore number 52, the Tomb of Nacht, a temple astronomer.

  • To espouse two positions at once is to pull a Clinton . To adopt the hairstyle popularized by the actress Jennifer Aniston on Friends is to get a Rachel or to get a Friends do . A sagan is a unit of quantity equivalent to "billions and billions"--the quotation an unintentionally self-parodic trademark of the late astronomer Carl Sagan.

  • (The asteroid story also makes the USAT front and is inside the WP .) The astronomer making the announcement is quoted saying there is "no immediate cause for alarm."

  • From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.

  • In the matter of Celsius versus centigrade , the point is not that they are “identical” (which is ambiguous for `very similar' and `the same thing'), but that they are the same thing: the scale formerly called centigrade was renamed in 1948 to honor Anders Celsius, the 18th-century Swedish astronomer who devised it.


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