firmament
Example Sentences
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In Washington’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Wednesday stood the great and good of the Republican firmament—senators, representatives, governors, cabinet secretaries, the president himself.
The pre-Revolutionary era aligned with advances in knowledge of the heavenly bodies, sparked by telescopes and a firmament not-yet-obstructed by skyscrapers and pollution.
Still, his place in the basketball firmament was long since secured.
Even Simon Harley-Dickinson must have wondered, from his ever-changing position in the theatrical firmament: What had become of Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia Incorrigible, the three wards of Lord Fredrick Ashton, of Ashton Place, England?
From Literature
A century on, the place of all three in the firmament is secure.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
