Example sentences for: heavens

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

  • Commercial channels pour programs down from the heavens that match or surpass the products of the public broadcasters, who are too cowed to produce anything as homo-proud as the new Ellen , as racy as Brooklyn South , or as culturally subversive as The Larry Sanders Show . I ask you, what PBS newsman out-wings the liberal Peter Jennings?

  • 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.

  • -- Arno Mayer, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

  • You said you saw the heavens openAnd show riches, ready to drop on us.Levitated beside you, I stood subjectedTo a strange tense: the spellbound future.

  • In Canada’s largest museum, there are views of the heavens through a huge refracting telescope, do-it-yourself demonstrations of balance and optics, and a plastic bubble with live chicks hatching in front of your eyes.


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