How to Use astral in a Sentence
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That’s the scene that precedes the one with the astral projection.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
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In the fifth episode, the show takes a hard turn toward sci-fi, and astral projection enters the chat.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
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Mendoza saw the eyes of a sober man roll back in his head in the Apache Nation, a sign an astral self might be roaming.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
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The disaster doused the planet with toxic Red Matter and opened a rift to the astral realm.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
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One of the astral moves to watch arrives on March 7, when Saturn enters Pisces.
—Narayana Montúfar, refinery29.com, 29 Dec. 2022
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So how did an astral voyager manage to claw his way to the top of a cutthroat business?
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 26 May 2018
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Friendship isn’t the connection of two souls on an astral plane.
—Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
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Although separated by the war, the two artists seem to have been working on the same astral plane.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
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Eleven's astral self is able to use her powers to bring Max back, but the girl is left in a coma at the end of the finale with no signs of recovery.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 July 2022
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The Strange in the primary reality will have to astral project himself into the dead body to help Chavez.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Sep. 2021
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Grab your camera and throw the ultimate astral affair with these tips.
—Sunset Magazine, 18 May 2022
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When the topic of highlights comes up, there are few celebrities who astral project into my mind faster than Jennifer Lopez.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Mar. 2023
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Through 14 chapters, each with a droll drawing by Eirian Chapman, our astral guide takes us through what is known—and not known—about the volatile goings-on in space.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
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The film skirts the more ethereal aspects of this work, at least until the end when the good doctor embarks on what looks like a form of astral projection.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
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And the variant that might die early in the movie, only for primary Strange to astral-project himself into his body in the final act.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Mar. 2022
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In addition to its human toll, the astral interloper damaged crops and fields in the area.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
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At last, the day of the total solar eclipse has arrived, bringing with it the miraculous astral event Bonnie Tyler crooned about all those years ago.
—Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 21 Aug. 2017
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Stone was our Conrad, the master of the political novel, taking the thriller into the astral plane.
—TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2020
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Two celebrities sharing the same zodiac sign go on an astral journey to the past, present and future, with help from some astrologers.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
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And the score, by Daniel Lopatin, is both primal and astral, the searing noise that fills up all of the dead air (not very much, to be fair) and that serves to nudge everything else just a little bit louder.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2019
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What went into the decision to hold off on the astral-projection reveal?
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2021
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Miguel Claro, a Portugese astral photographer, takes all his portraits from the ground.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2021
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And just when Kylo and Rey are getting close (albeit via astral projection), Uncle Luke busts in and ruins the mood.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
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This is the kind of music to soundtrack a late-night solo swim in a lukewarm pool, a journey through the darkest recesses of the universe, or perhaps a trip to the astral plane.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2021
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Far from any light pollution, this vast swath of blue is the ultimate canvas for astral artwork.
—Jonathan Irish, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
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In between the human world and the realm of souls, there’s a transitional space that filmmakers initially called the astral plane.
—John Jurgensen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
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And not everybody can jump into the astral plane where Noble goes and talks to Balisarius.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
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Leos are ruled by the sun, the consistent, steady celestial body that vividly illuminates the astral plane.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 19 Dec. 2017
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Her voice is more present and close on this album, slightly different from the more muffled sound heard on the original, as if beaming back from the astral plane so as to reach us here on Earth.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2021
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Thanks to astral projection or something like that, Rob, who is/was gay, took over Adele’s body, then killed his original body with a heroin overdose.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2021
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