firmament

Example Sentences

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Still, his place in the basketball firmament was long since secured.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stevens may spend a lot of time inside the city’s museums, but it’s clear that one of the things he loves most about Washington is its open firmament.

From Washington Post

Such is the ubiquity of the series in the global cultural firmament that Paris hotels, restaurants and bars say the tourism industry is benefiting, and cite “The Emily effect”: Emily-obsessed American tourists arriving in droves.

From New York Times

While Elliott Bay feels to many like a fixed point in Seattle’s firmament, every decade or so the store goes through a period of rapid change.

From Seattle Times

The more that I’ve reflected on it, it really makes sense to me that “A Strange Loop” would be a supernova that cuts across the firmament and then explodes.

From New York Times