STARS in a Sentence

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Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and shortened in a singular manner through the darkness.

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 Meanings and Examples of STARS
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star
 n.  a large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from earth as a point of light in the sky at night
 n.  a symbol with five or more points
 n.  a famous and successful person, such as a musician, actor, or sports player
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
2  Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
3  With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
4  He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
5  At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
6  I went into the fields, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  There were no stars in the sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
8  There were no stars in the sky even yet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
9  Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and shortened in a singular manner through the darkness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
10  But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars were the lanterns of a carriage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
11  They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up again and shone like stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
12  In the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
13  Not more than two or three stars were visible in the sky.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
14  Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
15  He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation amid which he beams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
Example Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
16  Those stars are hardly visible to the naked eye.
17  Fan magazines will bring you up-to-date on the doings of your favorite stars.
18  The innumerable stars in the sky are too far from us.
19  When that branch fell on my head, I saw stars for several seconds.
20  Listeners are invited to phone in their questions to the film stars from nine o'clock this evening.
21  It's pathetic to see fifty-year-old rock stars prancing around on stage as if they were still teenagers.
22  The film stars a famous actor in the part of the mad scientist.
23  The sky was jeweled with stars.
24  The stars twinkled in the sky.
25  The stars sparkle in the dark sky.
26  The sky is glittering with stars.
27  He stood there contemplating the stars in the sky.
28  I love stars, and you're as beautiful as a star.
29  This album confirmed The Orb's status as national stars, going straight to Number One in the charts.
30  I had never seen such a multitude of stars before.