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Example sentences for: astronomers

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

Look for the ventilation shafts that astronomers have proved aligned with major constellations in the skies of Ancient Egypt.
A story claims the cellular phone boom is the bane of radio astronomers.
Mayan astronomers tracked the movements of the heavenly bodies, predicting eclipses and marking the times for the planting of the new corn.
Convention plays a major role in all aspects of language, of course: by convention we call a certain fruit a banana and the group of islands west of Morocco the Azores (or the equivalent in other languages); astronomers have no difficulty in agreeing to call a certain configuration in the heavens the Horsehead Nebula every day of the week and not something different on Sundays, and chemists concur in describing the properties of sodium chloride.
Written in 18 th century English ("magical" is spelled "magickal," for example, and the predominant punctuation marks are the dash and the apostrophe), it tells the picaresque tale of two astronomers best known for surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the American cultural North from the cultural South.