: a feeling or impression of romance, magic, or ethereality
Examples of stardust in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebGlittering gems made of stardust forged in the furnace of the earth have fired humanity’s imagination for millennia.—Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024 Throughout its history, Milan cultivated a reputation for attracting the game’s biggest players—Marco Van Basten, Ricardo Kaka, Ronaldinho, David Beckham—giving it a patina of stardust that few other teams could rival.—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024 The dancers, masked, drift around an ugly basement dance hall, out of synch, with some other (wrong) music laid on top, bumping into one another, all covered in a shiny stuff like stardust.—Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 They are composed primarily of hydrogen molecules (two hydrogen atoms bound together) but also contain trace amounts of other molecules, including carbon monoxide, helium, and a sprinkling of stardust (particles composed of heavy elements created by previous generations of stars).—Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024 It might, simultaneously, be cast as a parable about mutual benefit not being the same as love, a morality play about the distorting influence of money, and a sporting case study in the limited functionality of stardust as a building material.—Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024 The Sagan connection is particularly strong in the second episode, which dives into how stardust is a building block for both the cosmos and humanity.—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024 On the British government side, the hope is that the new king can sprinkle a little royal stardust and deploy the kind of soft power that Elizabeth wielded so effectively during her reign.—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023 Sizes: 5–12 Colors: White Shine on with a comfortable leather sneaker that gives off stardust vibes, thanks to the sprinkling of iridescent crystals across the suede upper.—Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2023
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