How to Use the cosmos in a Sentence

the cosmos

noun
  • Much of it just had Hart’s head and hands adrift in the cosmos.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Xenomorphs are back to cause more homicides in the cosmos.
    — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But with electrons reined in, photons could shoot out through the cosmos.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
  • As the pulsar spins, these beams sweep across the cosmos like the beams of light from a lighthouse.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • This is where momentum returns as the cosmos dares you to take a leap of faith.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But, like the rest of the cosmos, the hydrogen gas is moving away.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There isn’t one star, or one galaxy, or one hydrogen atom in the cosmos.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Did the cosmos save the best retrograde season for last?
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps some curiosities of the cosmos are best left alone.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • That mix of the cosmos and 1950s B-movies has such fun tropes to it.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Finding more of them will offer a new way to probe the mysteries of the cosmos.
    — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Our world, our universe and the cosmos are rational.
    — Roger Van Zanen, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Yet lithium is central to one of the great mysteries of the cosmos.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 8 July 2025
  • Without active feeding, black holes can kind of hide behind the veil of the cosmos.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But the reason, the study concluded, had nothing to do with the cosmos.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But appearances are rarely the point at weddings that invoke the cosmos.
    — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Or that the current state of affairs here on this earth is shaped and shifted by the placement of the cosmos?
    — Samantha Leal, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023
  • What is clear is that these projects have given astronomers a completely new tool with which to study the cosmos.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Don’t curse the cosmos, though, rather note that this situation is karmic in nature!
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Not everything in the cosmos can hide from us forever.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • Your work, health and day-to-day habits are about to get a mystical makeover, compliments of the cosmos.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • And age is not just a number, but a tool that could help answer some of the most profound questions about the cosmos.
    — WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • And this has a direct effect on how matter is distributed in the cosmos.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But what has happened in the past when our planet faced much larger visitors from the cosmos?
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2025
  • By the new moon in your sign, you’re presented with a clean slate, compliments of the cosmos, so make a wish.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Staring up at an inky black sky, Galileo is seduced by the mysteries of the cosmos.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • These cataclysms then scatter it through the cosmos, so the shiny stuff then turns up in the dusty discs from which planets form.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a theory in Asia that the tiniest rooms enable one to think about the cosmos.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • If all goes well, Swift could be back to scanning the cosmos by September.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • These neutrinos arrive at Earth from the far reaches of the cosmos.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025

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