Example sentences for: constellations

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

  • The four central columns represent the seasons; then come two concentric rings of 12 columns each, representing the months and the dozen two-hour periods into which the day was divided; and 28 hardwood pillars symbolize the constellations.

  • Look for the ventilation shafts that astronomers have proved aligned with major constellations in the skies of Ancient Egypt.

  • For example, they could be named after American (or foreign) cities, American states, constellations, foreign countries, American and foreign statesmen, famous operas, opera singers, composers, works of fiction, music, and art, novelists, poets, and other writers, artists, characters in fiction or mythology, trees, flowers, animals, etc. --the supply is almost inexhaustible.

  • They are so lonely, our dying cities,specks on the vast familiar map that looks like a side of beef,in boldface or marked with a circled dot,ringed by their beltways, linked into nameless constellations by the interstates.Some are red giants, spreading and cooling in the smoggy dusk,others dwarfs with dense shrunken coresor black holes so involuted they swallow the light around them.


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