Example sentences for: sagan

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

  • This is unfortunate, because in his negligence he has allowed into his film dialogue (by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, based on Carl Sagan's novel) that falls far beneath the standards of your average corporate memo.

  • There's a scene in Carl Sagan's excellent novel Contact when Ellie Arroway, his protagonist, whooshes down some kind of intragalactic "wormhole" and winds up on a sunny beach, face to face with an alien.

  • Giordano Bruno, a sort of 16 th -century Carl Sagan, popularized these concepts without repenting, saying, among other things, that "innumerable suns exist.

  • To espouse two positions at once is to pull a Clinton . To adopt the hairstyle popularized by the actress Jennifer Aniston on Friends is to get a Rachel or to get a Friends do . A sagan is a unit of quantity equivalent to "billions and billions"--the quotation an unintentionally self-parodic trademark of the late astronomer Carl Sagan.

  • Or we could be, as Sagan's old collaborator I.S.


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