Firmament in a sentence as a noun

Borne o'er the cruel firmament become Ethel\n That Fred hath usurp'st from her the silence\n When lo!

He might have hit the firmament of heaven, which happened to be lower than he expected.

Genesis God sets the sun, moon and stars inside the firmament with us. Or the great flood that is recorded with similar versions all across the world.

I suspect that proper treatment of the subject would have offended those in the US that still believe in the firmament of heaven.

It affects the firmament of belief such that you have a hard time believing in something when you can argue yourself both for and against it.

It was an Atlas Shrugged moment, except it demonstrated that it's the ordinary masses that hold up the firmament of civil society.

There is something about this that irks me. I'm sure that once a person has secured their twinkling place in the startup firmament, it is gratifying to look down on the all the posers/wantrepreneurs/nontrepreneurs as lesser beings... Not everyone moves at the same pace.

Whether or not that ideology is seated in the firmament of organized religion it works out to just another form of puritanism.

YouTube also delists from search results content that details non-strawman evidence against the Apollo moon landings and videos of rockets appearing to hit the firmament, among many others.

Lack of data makes regularly smart people create weird beliefs.> I've never heard any reference to the sky being blue because there's water there'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

I find this one odd:>People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon... Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best.

Let him therein see an infinity of universes of which each has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and at the last the mites, in which he will come upon all that was in the first, and still find in these others the same without end and without cessation; let him lose himself in wonders as astonishing in their minuteness as the others in their immensity; for who will not be amazed at seeing that our body, which before was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, a whole, in regard to the nothingness to which we cannot attain.

Firmament definitions

noun

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

See also: sphere empyrean heavens welkin