How do you use Sagan in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Sagan meaning
A surname.
Using Sagan
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, sagan often appears in combinations such as: carl sagan, sagan and, sagan was.
Context around Sagan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sagan
- In this selection, "sagan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, carl, professor, jeremy, tosu, center and memorial stand out and add context to how "sagan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in carl sagan s novel and about carl sagan and how. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sagan" sits close to words such as adjudged, aggravating and alamos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sagan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sagan even stated on his official Twitter account that his name has been exploited. (14 words)
The artwork pays tribute to three groundbreaking figures: Nikola Tesla, Carl Sagan and Jeannette E. Brown. (16 words)
After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. (17 words)
Carl Sagan was born in New York, and he often pointed to the World's Book Fair of 1939, which made him see marvelous inventions on display that made him wonder about outer space, and he began to believe that there must be life on other planets. (47 words)
After identifying TOI 1338 b, the research team used a software package called eleanor, named after Eleanor Arroway, the central character in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact," to confirm the transits were real and not a result of instrumental artifacts. (40 words)
In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact," humanity is first alerted to extraterrestrial presence by a retransmission of Adolf Hitler's opening speech at the 1936 Summer Olympics—the first TV signal strong enough to escape Earth's ionosphere. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima said on Wednesday that their Levain Cup fixture against Sagan Tosu scheduled for later in the day has been postponed after several members of Sagan Tosu's staff tested positive for novel coronavirus.
After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson.
On November 9, 2001, on what would have been Sagan's 67th birthday, the Ames Research Center dedicated the site for the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos.
Professor Sagan had been a founding member of the museum's advisory board. citation The landing site of the unmanned Mars Pathfinder spacecraft was renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station on July 5, 1997.
The charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of Carl Sagan ) and the printing routines by Paul Funk (founder of Funk Software ).
Krasny, 78, who has interviewed VIPs from all walks of life, including Barack Obama, Carl Sagan and Philip Roth, launched a podcast last summer.
The great Carl Sagan on the absurdity of our plight: “Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene.
They pepper their conversations with laughter, expletives and exclamations, even as they remind themselves of Carl Sagan’s adage, however overused, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan was a cosmologist, astrophysicist, science communicator, and astrobiologist who played a significant role in the American space program.
Carl Sagan was born in New York, and he often pointed to the World's Book Fair of 1939, which made him see marvelous inventions on display that made him wonder about outer space, and he began to believe that there must be life on other planets.
In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact," humanity is first alerted to extraterrestrial presence by a retransmission of Adolf Hitler's opening speech at the 1936 Summer Olympics—the first TV signal strong enough to escape Earth's ionosphere.
Pausing for a moment, he thought about Carl Sagan, and how the astronomer said the same elements that form in the final gasps of a dying star—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon—are elements found in our bodies today.
The artwork pays tribute to three groundbreaking figures: Nikola Tesla, Carl Sagan and Jeannette E. Brown.
Torres later returned to Atletico Madrid (where he started his career) before moving to Japanese side Sagan Tosu.
After identifying TOI 1338 b, the research team used a software package called eleanor, named after Eleanor Arroway, the central character in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact," to confirm the transits were real and not a result of instrumental artifacts.
At the end of the fifth stage, Bennett moved clear of former three-time world champion Peter Sagan in the points classification.
Sagan even stated on his official Twitter account that his name has been exploited.
The name of the image was traced to the title of the 1994 book written by Carl Sagan, who was a Voyager imaging scientist.
The show's tongue-in-cheek presentation is a natural fit for Steiner and Sagan—they've embraced the public-access-show vibe, right down to recording in their basement.
Visit this link to read Mr. Sagan’s full obituary published Sept. 6 in the Hartford Courant.
Common combinations with sagan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- carl sagan 31×
- sagan and 10×
- sagan was 8×
- peter sagan 7×
- of sagan 4×
- sagan tosu 3×
- sagan as 3×
- sagan tosu's 2×
- sagan had 2×
- sagan in 2×