How to Use giant star in a Sentence

giant star

noun
  • But the tiniest cover is still set into motion by a giant star.
    — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 8 July 2020
  • Behind her, a giant star is lit on fire, while cowboys circle her on horseback.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The two stars are close enough that the white dwarf orbits inside the giant star's gaseous outer layers.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
  • There are people in giant star costumes frolicking on the stage.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • During the moment of silence, the giant star players skate through was lit purple and gold.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
  • When a giant star exhausts its fuel, the star’s mass flows inward and its core collapses.
    — quantamagazine.org, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The black hole sucks matter from the giant star, forming a swirling accretion disk that drains into the black hole.
    — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Regulus is a blue giant star many times larger than our own sun that is about 77 light-years from Earth.
    — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The blue-white giant star marks the heart of Leo, the lion, the mythical king of the cosmic jungle.
    — National Geographic, 4 July 2016
  • The global lockdown has created a huge fall in demand, but the more systemic giant staring down on us is debt.
    — The Economist, 20 May 2020
  • And in the case of giant stars, what happens is their outer parts eventually get kind of pushed into outer space.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • Neutron stars are formed when a giant star between about eight and 20 times the mass of our sun exhausts its fuel at the end of its life.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2021
  • According to the release, the black hole is a part of a system that includes a giant star 30 times the mass of the sun.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • About 34 light-years from the Sun, Pollux is the closest giant star to our Sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Neutron stars, among the most exotic objects in the universe, form from the cores of giant stars that have exploded.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The event will begin with what's called the partial stage, when the moon has not yet fully covered the sun, giving the giant star a crescent shape.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Which, again, is inconsistent with the fact that the giant star at the center of the η Carinae system is still there.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
  • An intermediate-mass black hole grows by gobbling up a 30 solar-mass blue giant star.
    — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
  • This rendering shows the hydrodynamic flow of matter in a giant star's core.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Spotify isn’t going after giant stars who already have label deals, which would trigger all-out war with the labels.
    — Peter Kafka, Recode, 8 June 2018
  • In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Arcturus is a bloated orange super giant star more than 25 times the diameter of our sun.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • Arcturus is a giant star in the constellation of Boötes, the Herdsman, which looks to me more like a kite than a person.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Then after a couple of hundred million years, our Sun will swell back up and finish its life as a giant star some two to three hundred times its current size.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Paired with an early K giant star that’s 70 percent as massive as our own sun, but six times larger in diameter.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The team has a hunch that a large object, orbiting the giant star, obscured our view of it briefly — but the nature of the occulting object is uncertain.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • In the second pic, Lil Nas X drapes his arms around the man for a mirror selfie, though his face is covered with a giant star emoji.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022

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