How to Use firmament in a Sentence

firmament

noun

• And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters . . . .
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
• To hear my colleagues in the media tell it, Swift’s reign in the pop firmament is over.
  — Andy Hermann, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 May 2018
• How can the things that sparkle in the firmament be held to account for humans’ fleshy flaws?
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Hartigan was one of the biggest stars in the firmament of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1950s.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• But the mid-tier bank has always been an odd beast in Japan’s banking firmament.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• Dozens of hot-air balloons that paint the firmament with color.
  — chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2019
• That Pigasse is the one leaving says much about where his star is currently placed in the firmament of the French elite.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• In the Hebrew Bible, God makes his presence felt as a voice in the firmament, as a whirlwind, as thunder.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• According to its court artists, their hometown belongs in the firmament of the gods.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• Who of the existing superstar firmament is gonna be a big deal in 10 years?
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 June 2018
• Stella, a down-on-her-luck star and Cole’s ex-wife, is looking to reclaim her place in the Tinsel Town firmament.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 26 May 2021
• In the last few decades, the deli, once a fixture in New York’s culinary firmament, has started to feel like a vanishing species.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2017
• With The Exorcist, his place in the firmament was secured, and Billy used his status to take risks.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• So two of the stars in ABC’s glittering firmament were able to publicly quash any feud rumors.
  — Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
• His father, Habib Bazzi, started the restaurant in 2009, and it’s now part of Dearborn’s food firmament.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• At this point, there is no such player in the Hollywood firmament.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• But some wildcats filled a real gap in the cartridge firmament.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2020
• At this time, Mozart and fellow Austrian Joseph Haydn were the twin suns of the musical firmament.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• What's more, in the middle of this test, the firmament over Michigan divested itself of six inches of snow, slush, and ice.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
• Where precisely Lavin’s book fits in this firmament may, at first, seem a bit unclear.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
• It’s like a magnet; the United States still is the polar star in the firmament even if the world has changed a lot and there are a lot of stresses on these institutions.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• In Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's bleakly glittery film about a pop singer's ascent to stardom, all is not well in the firmament.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
• Rorty was more than two decades my senior and highly accomplished, one of the stars in the academic firmament.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• More impressive, though, is the series’ use of its prime place in the cultural firmament to underscore the point.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• With his place in the pop-culture firmament cemented, Mr. Soul was able to make good on his longtime ambitions to be a pop star.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Here, even those most firmly ensconced in the firmament speak with a blunt directness that keeps the show racing forward.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• To my mind, what Tepper had to say also has a bearing on several other matters in the firmament over the past few days.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• Legitimacy was the wild card, the disrupter, the third sun in the Stalinist Cold War firmament.
  — John Lewis Gaddis, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2024
• To take on someone who looms so large in the cultural firmament is no enviable task.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• The mission plan called for only Isaacman and Gillis to leave the Dragon’s confines, taking 10-minute turns to peek out at the starry firmament and the world whirling far below.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024