Wondering how to use Firmament in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as sphere or empyrean.
Firmament meaning
- The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
- The field or sphere of an activity or interest.
- In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth celestial sphere which carried the fixed stars; (countable, by extension) any celestial sphere.
Using Firmament
- The main meaning on this page is: The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky. | The field or sphere of an activity or interest. | In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth celestial sphere which carried the fixed stars; (countable, by extension) any celestial sphere.
- Useful related words include: celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, heavens.
- In the example corpus, firmament often appears in combinations such as: the firmament, firmament of, political firmament.
Context around Firmament
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Firmament
- In this selection, "firmament" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, theater and golfing stand out and add context to how "firmament" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include down the firmament will change and in the firmament. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "firmament" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with firmament
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that is the sad reality about Nigeria’s political firmament. (11 words)
Unfortunately, people have come to believe they’re fixtures in the cosmic firmament. (13 words)
Neil Woodford was once one of the brightest stars in Britain’s investment firmament. (14 words)
As picking season gets under way, I find myself just as excited about the other star berries in our native fruit firmament, and I'm going to tell you about them over the next three weeks, starting today with gooseberries. (40 words)
In a chat with The Guardian on the development, Information Commissioner for Ebonyi State, Dr. Emmanuel Onwe, agreed that the evolution of Nigeria into two parallel political blocs has hovered over the national political firmament for at least a decade. (40 words)
Mr. Brustein was dean of the drama school at Yale and founded and ran the Yale Repertory Theater and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, producing well over 100 plays and securing them in the regional theater firmament. (38 words)
Example sentences (18)
Mr. Brustein was dean of the drama school at Yale and founded and ran the Yale Repertory Theater and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, producing well over 100 plays and securing them in the regional theater firmament.
This has negatively affected the objectives of the programme and contributed to the “firmament of frustration” across the country.
Despite his recent U-turn to a more accepting view on LIV’s presence in the golfing firmament, the 35-year-old four-time major winner has little sympathy.
Just 38 years old and suffering from breast cancer, Kris Hallenga founder of was such an incredibly bright star in the firmament.
And that is the sad reality about Nigeria’s political firmament.
China has entered a “third era” with President Xi Jinping placing himself in the same firmament as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
Collective 20 sat down for a (virtual) discussion with activists around the world, some of them C20 members and others from elsewhere in the firmament of movement-minded humans.
Unfortunately, people have come to believe they’re fixtures in the cosmic firmament.
As picking season gets under way, I find myself just as excited about the other star berries in our native fruit firmament, and I'm going to tell you about them over the next three weeks, starting today with gooseberries.
Neil Woodford was once one of the brightest stars in Britain’s investment firmament.
That initial view has since been confirmed with the bank registering today as undoubtedly, one of the brightest spots in the Nigerian business firmament.
The notion of Canada as a “colonial” country is one that is now fixed in the firmament of Indigenous dogma.
There can’t be many people in the Scottish sporting firmament whose unstinting work ethic, effervescent energy and sheer sense of fun made such an indelible impression.
In a chat with The Guardian on the development, Information Commissioner for Ebonyi State, Dr. Emmanuel Onwe, agreed that the evolution of Nigeria into two parallel political blocs has hovered over the national political firmament for at least a decade.
Thus the Lord: My messenger, write it down; the firmament will change starting from tomorrow.
Carefully drawing on arguments from scripture, he describes the Earth as a rectangle, 400 day's journey long by 200 wide, surrounded by four oceans and enclosed by four massive walls which support the firmament.
Contemporary Biblical cosmology reflects the same view of a flat, circular Earth swimming on water and overarched by the solid vault of the firmament to which are fastened the stars.
It appears again in Daniel Chapter 12 Verse 3, "The wise ones will shine like the radiance of the firmament".
Common combinations with firmament
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the firmament 8×
- firmament of 3×
- political firmament 2×