Example sentences for: stratospheric

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

  • And yet the strength of these companies--each, by the way, now valued at stratospheric heights--is helping carry those around them.

  • It is estimated that 1.2 million new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer occur each year in the United States, and the majority of these are believed to result from heavy exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun [ 1 ] . The incidence of skin cancer is predicted to increase even further because of the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer [ 2 ] . The development of chemopreventive strategies for skin cancer is thus a high public health priority.

  • Bill Gates himself supposedly told his father to sell his Microsoft stock soon after the company went public and saw its shares soar to what then must have seemed like stratospheric levels.

  • But what's interesting is that it isn't just stocks trading at stratospheric levels that are punished, nor is it just stocks that fall well short of expectations.

  • In order to justify today's stratospheric share prices, profits and productivity must grow at improbably high rates for an impossibly long time.


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