How to Use supergiant in a Sentence

supergiant

noun
  • Blue supergiant stars do not have life spans of nine billion years.
    — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star that glows orange-red in the sky.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Astronomers have captured the death of a red supergiant star for the first time.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The bright-red supergiant star Aldebaran will align with the trio.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The blue supergiant is an O-type star, one of the most massive star types known.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Antares is a red supergiant star 12 times the sun's mass, one of the biggest stars.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, a star late in its life that has expanded to an enormous size.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Bright orange supergiant star Aldebaran will lurk on the Moon’s left-hand side.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • For blue supergiants, with dozens of times the Sun's mass, the models stop exploding.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Along with main sequence and white dwarf stars, other groups include dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
    — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Some amphipods are tiny, but others, known as supergiants, can grow up to 13 inches long.
    — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • And that would make sense, Betelgeuse is pretty old for a red supergiant, which burn out more quickly than our star.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
  • In oil, a find of 1 billion barrels is regarded as a supergiant.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2011
  • Pledger’s findings confirmed the stellar culprit to be a red supergiant.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
  • This red supergiant, many times the mass of the sun, has a boiling surface and is usually the tenth brightest in the sky.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The star is a blue-white supergiant located 870 light-years away from the Sun.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Those measurements are elite, even among the supergiants in the NBA.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • At that size during the red supergiant phase, the black hole’s outer layers should have swelled up to where the sun-like star orbits it today.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Pulsars are the remains of long-dead stars, the cores of supergiants left over from the tremendous explosions that consumed them.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Red supergiants are known to develop such pulsations in the denouement of their life.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
  • For insomniacs or predawn risers, the moon and the red supergiant star Antares pair up for a sight to see in the southern sky.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • From Earth's perspective, one of the brightest stars in the sky is the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020
  • From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The red supergiant Betelgeuse shines on Orion’s right shoulder.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The red supergiant star Antares will be visible in the night sky on June 10 or 11.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 5 June 2025
  • On the face of things, DFK 2 looks unremarkable as far as red supergiants go.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • On a cosmic scale, this star was rather ordinary, probably a red supergiant some 10 times more massive than our sun.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2017

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