Sample Sentences for
cosmos
(editor-reviewed)

cosmos as in:  expansion of the cosmos

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    Of course, even without my help, other forces would keep the cosmos chugging along.  (source)
    cosmos = the universe
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    McCandless may have been tempted by the succor offered by women, but it paled beside the prospect of rough congress with nature, with the cosmos itself.  (source)
    cosmos = all of physical reality
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    All through the universe it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle.  (source)
    cosmos = the universe
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    He said his bout with TB had set him to pondering about mortality and the nature of the cosmos.  (source)
    cosmos = the universe
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    The word 'cosmos' appears often in his poetry, you know.  (source)
    cosmos = everything that exists anywhere -- especially when viewed as a harmonious system
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    But to ensure a celestial balance and the equilibrium of the cosmos, this moustachioed scoundrel in evening clothes was sure to remember every single second for the rest of his life.  (source)
    cosmos = the universe
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    The secrets of the cosmos unveiled.  (source)
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    It might be argued that the Siamese-twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the reveling cosmos.  (source)
    cosmos = universe
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    To quote Kramer and Maier again, '[They believed in] the existence from time primordial of a fundamental, unalterable, comprehensive assortment of powers and duties, norms and standards, rules and regulations, known as me, relating to the cosmos and its components, to gods and humans, to cities and countries, and to the varied aspects of civilized life.'  (source)
    cosmos = the universe
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    Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.  (source)
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    Hmm, well...in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow.  (source)
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    Because he's a disgusting idiot who will probably be rich and happy his whole life, thus proving the absolute unfairness of the cosmos?  (source)
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    Heraclitus—who lived around 500 B.C.—composed a number of adages, what are called his "apothegms of change," all of which tell us that everything is changing at every moment, that the movement of time causes ceaseless change in the cosmos.  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    One afternoon, he saw one with the name Cosmos Mariner painted on the bow.  (source)
    Cosmos = part of the name of a ship in this novel
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    I waited patiently—years—for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer.  (source)
    cosmos = cosmopolitan cocktails
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    That evening he went home and looked for mention of the Cosmos Mariner in the shipping news.  (source)
    Cosmos = part of the name of a ship in this novel
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COSMOS MARINER, DESTINATION UNKNOWN.  (source)
COSMOS = part of the name of a ship in this novel
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