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How to use galaxy in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Galaxy means the Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth. Example: “No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.”

Examples of galaxy by meaning

nounAny print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on...

  • Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls, page 42
  • Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating
  • She loved galaxy patterned things.2018, Isabel Scheck, Survival, page 15

More sentences with galaxy

  • No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.From the entry the
  • Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.From the entry world
  • The furthest known galaxy is about 13 billion light years from Earth.From the entry furthest
  • Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.From the entry microscopic
  • The Magellanic Clouds are irregular galaxies.From the entry irregular galaxy
  • What with all the galaxies and planets they keep discovering that are a quintrigintillion miles away!2018 May 7, Gaurav Bidasaria, “Top 7 Free Number to Words Converters”, in Guiding Tech. From the entry quintrigintillion
  • The average SFRs of star-forming cluster galaxies show a trend of decreasing SFR with clustocentric radius.2016, Rebecca J. Allen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Karl Glazebrook, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Lee R. Spitler, Caroline M. S. Straatman, Michael Cowley…. From the entry clustocentric
  • The outer boundary of the homeoid is the boundary of the galaxy halo.2012, S. A. Gasanov, “Steady-state solutions for the motion of a globular cluster in an inhomogeneous, rotating elliptical galaxy”, in…. From the entry homeoid
  • I did not relish the idea of leaving this galaxy of adventure for a life of normaldom.2011, Warwick Davis, Size Matters Not. From the entry normaldom
  • They are a terrifying force in the galaxy, responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry. From the entry myth
  • And he won't stop until he's wiped humanity from the face of the galaxy!2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1. From the entry face
  • The galaxy is filled with rumors and misinformation about my people.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1. From the entry misinformation
  • The rarer, submillimetre galaxies that form stars even more intensely 2, 12, 13 are largely merger-induced starbursts.2008 January 22, A. Dekel et al., “Cold streams in early massive hot haloes as the main mode of galaxy formation”, in Nature, volume 457…. From the entry submillimetre
  • The new M5 computer would enable mankind to explore the galaxy without putting human life in danger.2007, Mark S. Kadrich, “Linux”, in Endpoint Security, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, pages 229 and 234. From the entry dunsel
  • Around me were computer databases filled with records of innumerable galaxies, exobiotic life forms and extraterrestrial cultures.2002, Linda Johnsen, The Living Goddess, →ISBN. From the entry exobiotic
  • Sketching galaxies and nebulae at the eyepiece, in low light levels, is no easy matter.2001, Grant Privett, Paul Parsons, “Deep-sky Observing”, in The Deep-sky Observer’s Year: A Guide to Observing Deep-sky Objects throughout…. From the entry bulldog clip
  • A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a sickfic.1999 October 26, Nicola Simpson, “Re: What About A 'Sick Fic Archive'????”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry sickfic
  • Blast off for the rockingest rock in the galaxy, where it's always lunchtime and you rule!1998 May, Boys' Life, page 2. From the entry rockingest
  • A typical hypergalaxy is approximately three to five times more massive than its central galaxy.1987, L. E. Gurevich, A. D. Chernin, The Magic of Galaxies and Stars, Mir Publishers Moscow, page 175. From the entry hypergalaxy
  • On the far side of the larger galaxy a counterarm sometimes sprouts out.1978, Simon Mitton, Exploring the Galaxies, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry counterarm
  • The radio galaxies Virgo A, Centaurus A and possibly Fornax A lie within the Local Supergalaxy.1964, V. L. Ginzburg, S. I. Syrovatskii, translated by H. S. H. Massey, edited by D. ter Haar, The Origin of Cosmic Rays, Moscow: Pergamon…. From the entry supergalaxy
  • The world is becoming more and more a galaxy of economic superhierarchies which coordinate local subhierarchies.1953, John M. Pfiffner, Public Administration, The Ronald Press Company, page 402. From the entry superhierarchy
  • A myth common to several cultures in the galaxy, Reapers were once imagined as space monsters that consumed entire stars.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (science fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Reapers Codex entry. From the entry all-consuming
  • Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel. From the entry rest
  • Primary mass relays can propel ships thousands of light years, often from one spiral arm of the galaxy to another.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Relays Codex entry. From the entry propel
  • Andromeda is a large, spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.2008, Roger Reid, Space (novel), Montgomery, AL: Junebug Books, page 41. From the entry andromeda
  • The Migrant Fleet is the largest concentration of starfaring vessels in the galaxy, sprawling across millions of kilometers.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Migrant Fleet Codex entry. From the entry starfaring
  • The morphology-radius and the intragalactic medium cluster observations support the movement of matter from Source galaxies to Sink galaxies.2006, John C. Hodge, “Scalar potential model of redshift and discrete redshift”, in arXiv. From the entry intragalactic
  • The largest mass objects in the universe are superclusters of galaxies, which have a foam-like topology with "great walls" closing "supervoids".1997, Dark Matter In Astro- And Particle Physics, Dark '96, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 412. From the entry supervoid
  • But how the primevality of this galaxy, even if it is in an early stage of evolution, can be actually proved?1987, Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange, Bruno Guiderdoni, “Spectrophotometric Evolution of Distant Galaxies”, in J. Bergeron, D. Kunth, B.…. From the entry primevality
  • “Regular strings of H II regions and superclouds in spiral galaxies: clues to the origin of cloudy structure.”1986, Marcia Bartusiak, Thursday's Universe, Omni Press, Times Books, →ISBN, page 281. From the entry supercloud
  • While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies.1984, Joshua Edward Barnes, On the Origin of Galactic Bulges, the Evolution of Groups, and the Distribution of Abell Clusters. From the entry protobulge
  • The Albert Einstein Spacearium is a rare vantage point for viewing some of our galaxy with startling Clarity.1981, National Air and Space Museum, The National Air and Space Museum, page 85. From the entry spacearium
  • The term hypergalaxies is applied to galaxies plus their massive coronas and all objects moving in the coronas.1978, J. Einasto, The Large Scale Structure of the Universe; Proceedings of the Symposium, Tallin, Estonian SSR, September 12-16, 1977…. From the entry hypergalaxy
  • We cannot hope to stop the reaction of the reaction because the galaxy is a far more entity than I.1971, Brian M. Stableford, Day of Wrath, Quartet Books, pages 129-130. From the entry ultradimensional
  • Our galaxy, together with the ninety-three globular clusters and the two Magellanic Clouds, forms a sort of super-galaxy in space.1935, Arthur McCracken Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City, New York: Garden City…. From the entry supergalaxy
  • But it’s not just Jean-Claude Juncker who believes that May lives in another galaxy: most leaders in continental Europe believe that – including Angela Merkel.2017 May 4, Stephan Richter, “The Erdoğan of Downing Street, a Le Pen in No 10: that’s how Merkel sees May”, in the Guardian. From the entry continental Europe

Meaning of galaxy

  1. noun The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.
  2. noun Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
  3. noun An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant.

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Questions about galaxy in a sentence

How do you use galaxy in a sentence?
Galaxy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.”
What is a short sentence with galaxy?
“She loved galaxy patterned things.”
What does galaxy mean?
Galaxy means the Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: galaxy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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