Example Sentences

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The last hint of dusk slowly vanishes from the horizon, and in the sun’s absence, the strange stars are coaxed to shine.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The Betty Beverleys of this world are dowered with immortal youth and change but little, even under strange stars.

From Betty at Fort Blizzard by Seawell, Molly Elliot

Then a second storm blowing from the east had flung them seaward, and for weeks they were out of sight of land, steering by strange stars.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear. 

From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

A white moon, a wide heaven filled with strange stars, and the tall moon-flowers at the gate lifting up their mute white trumpets to the night wind.

From A Woman's Part in a Revolution by Hammond, Natalie Harris