sublunary

Example Sentences

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But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.

From New York Times

And worse, they assume their buildings will inject some germ of their utopian vision into the boring, sublunary setting of their work, and thus transform everything around it.

From Washington Post

Anything below the moon was “sublunary,” separate from the rest of the solar system’s state of grace.

From Scientific American

This, amongst all sublunary blessings, is undoubtedly the one of paramount importance, and, seeing how things now stand with us, it is imperative that it should be the question to receive earliest attention.

From Project Gutenberg

The light that shines into a holy heart is constant, like that of the sun, which keeps due times, and varies not his course for any of these sublunary occasions.”

From Project Gutenberg