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Examples of star in a Sentence
Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
Jelly Roll had a big night on the CMT Awards stage on Sunday (April 7), but behind the scenes, Bunnie XO — who is the country star’s wife — got her moment as well.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2024
Movie stars, filmmakers and studio heads are expected to tease, extol and in some cases screen their upcoming releases.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Morgan Wallen arrested in Nashville The country star is facing felony charges after allegedly throwing a chair from a rooftop bar.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
The scene mirrored much larger Hollywood premieres as members of the starry cast and their friends (Anderson .Paak, Bobby Lee, Lil Dicky) mingled with movie stars (Josh Brolin, Shia LaBeouf).
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
The Property Brothers star, 45, used the 2024 total solar eclipse to announce another special moment that will be happening soon.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
The streamer was quick to order a renewal the next month, with the star taking the stage at the company’s Tudum event to announce a second season.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
In fact, consistently beating the S&P 500 - in good times and bad - has been difficult over recent years for individual stocks; for heavyweights in the Communication Services sector including GOOG, META, and NFLX, and even for the mega-cap stars TSLA, MSFT, and AMZN.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
The film stars Tessa Thompson in the title role and does not yet have a release date.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
Sophomore Elijah Paige starred in the Holiday Bowl at left tackle and is expected to reprise the role as the full-time starter.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Back to Black is set to open in the U.S. on May 17 — the same day as the soundtrack’s release — with Marisa Abela starring as Winehouse.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
The Idea of You, a new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, is the latest entrant in this genre.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
In addition to Grant, who starred in 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary and 2004's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Thompson, who starred in 2016's Bridget Jones's Baby, the new film will feature franchise newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor (Love, Actually) and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus).
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
Sony announced Friday that the film from director Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth, and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright is set for a platform release this November.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
Gossett — who amassed more than 200 screen roles during his prolific acting career — most recently starred as Ol’ Mister in the 2023 movie musical version of The Color Purple.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Zach Edey, Purdue's star big man, led all scorers with 37 points.
—CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
With Westbrook’s anticipated return, all the Clippers need to be whole is for Norman Powell to return from a lower leg bruise that has kept the star sixth man out the last three games.
—Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
Edwards led the Timberwolves in scoring, posting 32 points to go along with seven rebounds, eight assists, two blocks and a steal on a night where Minnesota was without its star big man duo of Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert.
—Sam Joseph, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
With star big man Branden Carlson eschewing the NBA Draft, guard Gabe Madsen returning and Georgia Tech transfer Deivon Smith arriving, the Utes were picked seventh in the Pac-12 race.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
Hunter has a star witness of his own -- Dr. William Anderson, a forensic pathologist and former medical examiner who reviewed Cayley's autopsy and records for the defense.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
The difference came on the offensive glass, where UConn struggled in the last several games without its star big man.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
As prosecutors sought to prove their case, they were plagued by setbacks, including questions about the credibility of their star witness and revelations that he had been coached by a Becciu enemy. .
—Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English sterre, stere "star, planet, constellation," going back to Old English steorra (Northumbrian stearra), masculine weak noun, going back to a Germanic n-stem paradigm *sterōn (nominative), *sterraz (genitive), going back to pre-Germanic *h2stér-ōn, *h2ster-n-ós (whence also Old Frisian stēra "star," Old Saxon & Old High German sterro, Middle Dutch sterre, and, with reintroduction of *-rn- from oblique forms with presumed initial stress, Middle Dutch sterne "star," Old High German sterno, Old Icelandic stjarna, Gothic stairno), going back to Indo-European *h2ster- "star," whence, with varying thematizations, Old Irish ser "star" (attested once), Welsh sêr "stars" (singular seren), Old Breton sterenn "star," Greek aster-, astḗr "star (usually in reference to a particular heavenly body)," ástra "stars" (with a secondary singular ástron), Tocharian A śreñ "stars," Tocharian B ścirye "star," Sanskrit stār- (nominative plural tā́raḥ, instrumental plural stṛ́bhiḥ), Avestan star-, Hittite ḫašter-; with a suffixal -l- Latin stēlla "star, heavenly body" (perhaps < *stēr(e)lā), Armenian astł (perhaps < *h2stēr-l-)
Note: The etymon *h2ster- is attested in all major subfamilies of Indo-European, with the apparent exception of Balto-Slavic and Albanian. The original paradigm can be reconstructed as *h2stḗr (nominative), *h2stér-m̥ (accusative), *h2str-ó-s (genitive); it is preserved best in Greek. The Germanic forms show the action of Kluge's Law (to those who accept it), according to which *-rn- is reduced to a geminate *-rr- before an accented syllable. The original *-rn- has found its way back into the base form in North and East Germanic, but only partially in West Germanic (it is lacking completely in Anglo-Frisian). The Indo-European etymology can be carried further, if the base *h2ster- is seen as a reduction of *h2h1ster-, an agentive derivative of *h2eh1s- "burn, make dry with heat" (see arid); the star would hence the thing that burns or glows (see D. Adams, A Dictionary of Tocharian B, Revised and Greatly Enlarged [Rodopi, 2013], p. 701). A different and less straightforward derivation is proposed by G.-J. Pinault ("A Star Is Born: A 'New' PIE *-ter- Suffix," A.J. Nussbaum, editor, Verba Docenti [Ann Arbor, 2007], pp. 271-79). Earlier proposals that see the origin of the Indo-European star etymon in the names of Semitic deities of the morning and evening star (Phoenician *‛aštart, rendered by the Greeks as Astártē; Akkadian ištar) now seem improbable.
Verb
derivative of star entry 1
Adjective
from attributive use of star entry 1
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1592, in the meaning defined at sense 4
Adjective
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/star. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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