How to Use Asgard in a Sentence

Asgard

noun
  • The first film in the Thor series sees the god of thunder exiled from his fabled home of Asgard to earth where he is forced to learn humility.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Other phyla of Asgard microbes have also been named after gods from Norse mythology.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The All-Father and prime god of the Norse pantheon, Odin lives in Asgard and rules as king of the Æsir.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At no point does his character summon thunder and lightning from the sky, pine for the good old days in Asgard, or reference the Nordic gods of yore.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The next step was to understand what energy-generating processes could unfold in different types of Asgard microbes based on their genes.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Nemesis achieves a lot, introducing a dangerous new villain that even the mighty Asgard fear, while ramping up the tension for a suitably dramatic season finale.
    — Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • In Norse mythology, the ash tree known as Yggdrasill binds together all nine worlds, from the underworld of Niflheim to the realm of the gods, Asgard.
    — Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This includes the grueling Asgard Pass, which ascends 2,000 vertical feet in less than a mile (look out for mountain goats and have an offline map handy).
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
  • One paper, published in 2022, found that tubules in another type of Asgard did not look particularly similar.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Asgard archaea represent the earliest contribution, as would be expected.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • As expected, many of the other genes came from either the Asgard archaea or Alphaproteobacteria, consistent with the big-picture model of our origins.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • By examining samples from a broad range of environments, researchers are increasingly finding more types of Asgard microbes, such as Heimdallarchaeia, named for the guardian of Asgard.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The team was able to gather hundreds of previously unknown genomes and build a tree of life for Asgard microbes by comparing genetic similarities and differences between the microbes within the superphylum.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In 2023, Baker and his colleagues found that eukaryotes appear most closely related to the Heimdall group of Asgard microbes, which have high-energy metabolic pathways.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • As well as the core Gungnir label, the deal will see Gungnir partners Storyteller, Asgard Books and Rogue Matter coming under the Macmillan umbrella.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
  • These organisms were either in symbiotic association with, engulfed as food by, or parasites of other prokaryotic cells, presumably Asgard archaea—a group of archaea thought to be the closest prokaryotic relative of eukaryotes.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • Previously unknown protein groups in the microbes were uncovered while assembling the Asgard family tree, enabling Baker and his colleagues to compare the proteins with those used by eukaryotes to generate energy and metabolize oxygen.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But a new investigation of Asgard genomes has revealed previously unknown lineages of the microbes in shallow coastal sediments, some of which appear tolerant of and use oxygen, according to a study published February 18 in the journal Nature.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps another Asgard with similar tubulin genes but a quicker life cycle will turn up, said Tom Pollard, a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University who studies cell division.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Pilhofer and the postdoctoral researcher Florian Wollweber, working with Schleper and a team of collaborators, revealed the presence of a protein very much like eukaryotic actin in an Asgard, called Candidatus Lokiarchaeum ossiferum.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The cast also includes Teresa Palmer as Phoebe/Sif, Thor’s wife and the goddess of family; Max Parker as Heimdall, the Watchman of Asgard, and one of Odin’s sons; as well as Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, who will portray the larger-than-life Thor.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Karl Urban has kicked ass on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, in Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings, and on Asgard in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but none of those proved as difficult as picking up Johnny Cage's bo staff.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025

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