How to Use Pleiades in a Sentence

Pleiades

plural noun

• Look for Jupiter and Uranus after sunset just below the Pleiades star cluster, and near the constellation Aries.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
• See the Pleiades star cluster above and left of the moon.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
• Usefully, the Pleiades open star cluster will shine to the left of the pair.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• The Pleiades star cluster will appear to the lower right of the full moon, but it may be masked by the moon's brightness.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
• Matariki is deeply rooted in star lore, signaled by the rising of the Pleiades star cluster.
  — Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
• Made in northern Germany, the gold-and-bronze artifact depicts the constellation of the Pleiades and the sun and moon.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
• Jeff Cohen shot the image of the Pleiades cluster from his backyard over a four-hour period.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
• One dense clump of stars seems to represent the Pleiades (and more accurately than the Lascaux cave painting).
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
• The trust that Gordon created was named Pleiades, for a set of sisters in Greek myth who had dalliances with Olympian gods and were immortalized as stars in the night sky.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Teide 1 was identified in the famous Pleiades star cluster.
  — Katelyn Allers, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• In the winter, visitors are often treated to views of the Pleiades open star cluster and the Orion constellation.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
• Gordon became the principal beneficiary of Pleiades, which the lawsuit says his daughters will inherit after his death.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• Certain landscapes were burned upon the appearance of the Pleiades, popularly known as the Seven Sisters star cluster — known in Karuk folklore as the seven wives of the coyotes — and never during bird mating season, according to tribal leaders.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• The video recounts several fables about the Pleiades, which were associated with a group of sisters by various far-flung, culturally disconnected peoples.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024