How to Use firmament in a Sentence

firmament

noun
  • Dozens of hot-air balloons that paint the firmament with color.
    — chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2019
  • How can the things that sparkle in the firmament be held to account for humans’ fleshy flaws?
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
  • For much of a full decade, Taylor was part of the Dodgers’ firmament.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • But the mid-tier bank has always been an odd beast in Japan’s banking firmament.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • To hear my colleagues in the media tell it, Swift’s reign in the pop firmament is over.
    — Andy Hermann, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 May 2018
  • But some wildcats filled a real gap in the cartridge firmament.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2020
  • According to its court artists, their hometown belongs in the firmament of the gods.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At this point, there is no such player in the Hollywood firmament.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • Where precisely Lavin’s book fits in this firmament may, at first, seem a bit unclear.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • To take on someone who looms so large in the cultural firmament is no enviable task.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Her education has left her with an expansive sense of her place in the pop firmament.
    — Hanna Hanra, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Who of the existing superstar firmament is gonna be a big deal in 10 years?
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 June 2018
  • Still, even Glenn admitted that the tariff rollout had left some cracks in the firmament.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Taix’s history, and its spot in the city’s cultural firmament, cannot be denied.
    — Sammy Loren, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Rorty was more than two decades my senior and highly accomplished, one of the stars in the academic firmament.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • The size and fervor of his audiences spoke to his place in the conservative firmament.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Here, even those most firmly ensconced in the firmament speak with a blunt directness that keeps the show racing forward.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • To much of the pop firmament, this might seem like a ho-hum event, one more online drop indistinguishable from all the others.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The stars in the firmament may be Yosemite and Yellowstone, but there are countless others.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
  • That Pigasse is the one leaving says much about where his star is currently placed in the firmament of the French elite.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Or is the red, white, and blue tradition gone already, as fleeting in the pop culture firmament as a fireworks display?
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 5 July 2017
  • What’s going on here is nothing less than a sort of nation building, laying the firmament for a new way of living and seeing the world.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 May 2026
  • Shirley MacLaine, a longtime star in the movie-world firmament, opens up her personal photo gallery to the world.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • More impressive, though, is the series’ use of its prime place in the cultural firmament to underscore the point.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • About our political firmament, or the appetite of the public.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • College football’s firmament is predictably trying to shut the door on newcomers.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To my mind, what Tepper had to say also has a bearing on several other matters in the firmament over the past few days.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • So two of the stars in ABC’s glittering firmament were able to publicly quash any feud rumors.
    — Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
  • What's more, in the middle of this test, the firmament over Michigan divested itself of six inches of snow, slush, and ice.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022

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