UNIVERSE in a Sentence

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His work in theoretical physics, which I will not attempt to explain further here, has advance our understanding of the universe.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNIVERSE
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universe
 n.  cosmos; everything that exists anywhere
Classic Sentence: (181 in 13 pages)
1  The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  The most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and supplying the vanished universe to you.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
3  As she swept the staircase, she paused, remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at the bottom of her pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
4  In this attitude she prays for all the guilty in the universe.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
5  Its explosions, its days, its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
6  The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
7  He was the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman group in the domination of the universe.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
8  No erasures; the universe was present.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
9  The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
10  The universe around them had fallen into a hole.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS
11  Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
12  Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
13  ; and that which they wished to overturn in overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
14  This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
15  Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
16  These discoveries may throw new light on the origins of the universe.
17  The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
18  Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like an oval.
19  The concept that matter and energy are inter-convertible strikes to the core of the universe, probably exceeds in grandeur any other picture the field of physical science.
20  His work in theoretical physics, which I will not attempt to explain further here, has advance our understanding of the universe.
21  Fed up with this imperfect universe, Don would have liked to run off to Shangri-la or some other imaginary utopia.
22  The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
23  They are discussing a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance.
24  NASA embodies the pursuit of knowledge in unexplored regions of the universe, as well as the universe of the mind.
25  They study the evolution of the universe.
26  There was talk of releasing a Star Wars film every year; of an interconnected universe stitched together through a combination of sequels, prequels, and spin-offs.
27  Like Don Draper, TV's unflappable ad man, the universe is smooth, really smooth – and maddeningly inscrutable about its past.
28  Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
29  Food, like sex, is a subject of almost universal interest.
30  All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.