sublunary

Example Sentences

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Few sublunary powers are, after all, as attainable as an expertise in words; or as a peruser of the Collegiate might put it, it’s a major flex.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Online, touch grass is an oft-repeated quasi insult, a way to tell your opponent they’ve spent too much time scrolling and need to reestablish a relationship with the sublunary.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

“Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021

He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

Astronomy, though, was a peculiar discipline because it accepted unquestioningly the Aristotelian distinction between the sublunary and supralunary worlds.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton