Sea of Tranquility

American  

[see uhv trang-kwil-i-tee] / ˈsi əv træŋˈkwɪl ɪ ti /

noun

Astronomy.

1. Mare Tranquillitatis.

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Example Sentences

That’s a big part of the reason Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin flew 240,000 miles for a relatively short wander around their spacecraft: It was simply too hot at Apollo 11’s landing site in the Sea of Tranquility to go any farther.

From Los Angeles Times

Interviews usually happen in accordance with a publication schedule - with the paperback edition of The Sea of Tranquility not due until April, it could be months before she corrected the record.

From BBC

In her latest book, The Sea of Tranquility, the character of Olive Llewellyn, a stand-in for Ms Mandel, is an author whose book about a pandemic is published just before an actual pandemic takes hold.

From BBC

‘Sea of Tranquility,’ Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, is as ambitious as ‘Station Eleven,’ again using sci-fi tropes to ask deeply human questions.

From Los Angeles Times

In ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ her vision is not quite as bleak, but it is as strong — I won’t say prophetic — as ever.”

From Los Angeles Times