Example sentences for: astronomical

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

  • The Peak is still the most fashionable place to live in Hong Kong, but real estate prices here are astronomical; rents run around HK$50,000 a month.

  • I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.

  • Inside the brick tower, which looks like a remnant of the old city wall, are astronomical displays, including a gold foil map of the heavens as they were plotted in China 500 years ago.

  • The certainty that this was an unnecessary war, not merely in hindsight but in the context of that time, also makes the astronomical costs that resulted from it during 1965-1973 that much more difficult to contemplate.

  • The paper said the India lobby complained that American aid to Orissa was "but a drop in the ocean" compared to the "astronomical" amounts it sent to Turkey following the earthquake there.


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