How to Use galaxy in a Sentence

galaxy

noun
  • The event was attended by a galaxy of artists.
  • Our galaxy is among this warped group.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Well, this girl’s the whole galaxy.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Like many stars in our galaxy, they were born as a duo.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Is this a galaxy or a movie poster for a sci-fi smash hit?
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 19 May 2026
  • Such hot cores are rare in the outer galaxy.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So galaxies can move away from us faster than light.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But that’s not the case for all galaxies.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As for how many of these free floaters might lie within our galaxy?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 11 June 2022
  • Turns out there’s plenty of room in the galaxy for more movies.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 June 2026
  • Which explains why the word ‘galaxy’ is in quotes above.
    — ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026
  • And most galaxies near to us (in time and space) are round too.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • There won’t be as long a wait to return to a galaxy far, far away.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 May 2026
  • This is a galaxy-sized discount!
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 15 June 2026
  • Ryan Gosling is blasting off to a galaxy far, far away.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This kind of thing happens to people all the time in our galaxy.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
  • City lights can easily wash out the faint glow of the galaxy.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • How does a galaxy find its way to this precise blueprint?
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the galaxy lacks many clusters like that, van Dokkum says.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
  • This one has been traced to a small dwarf galaxy over 3 billion light-years away.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
  • One reason is that red dwarfs are the most common kind of star in the galaxy.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But how does a galaxy end up with few or no stars and mostly dark matter?
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The dough is like space, and the raisins are like the galaxies within it.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But that’s not the only way our galaxy’s disk is off-kilter.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Or is the galaxy so young that those heavy elements haven’t had time to form?
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Well, there's how many billions of beings out there in the galaxy?
    — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
  • In our own galaxy, this may even happen a few times a year, per the paper.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • That galaxy far, far away won’t merge with the Avengers anytime soon.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The movie took place in a galaxy far, far away, but it was etched into my young mind for good.
    — Brijesh Prabhakar, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Who’s one writer who can give us a real galaxy-brain take on our brave new world?
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

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