Example sentences for: astronomy

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

  • At one point, she gets so carried away with her thesis that she suggests that females were responsible not only for all of human evolutionary biology but for the very notion of counting (in order to keep track of menstruation) and, probably by the same token, astronomy.

  • From the Jesuits the Chinese learned mathematics and astronomy; the old observatory still stands in downtown Beijing.

  • In the 17th century the Jesuits, headed by Matteo Ricci, had a profound influence not so much on Chinese religion (they made few converts among Beijingers) as on science, mathematics, astronomy, art, medicine, and other forms of knowledge that had never before been infused with Western ideas in China.

  • For all its earnest credibility about radio astronomy, Contact is breezy in the extreme when it comes to almost everything else.

  • His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.


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