Sentence examples for dim and distant star from inspiring English sources

A14 SCIENCE/HEALTH Astronomers Cite New Planet A reddish speck photographed near a dim and distant star last year is indeed a planet, about five times the mass of Jupiter, an international team of astronomers is reporting.

LET science hunt for tiny particles and distant stars.

In November, that object, now known as the dwarf planet Eris, passed in front of a dim, distant star.

Trailing in the earth's wake as it orbits the sun, Kepler has been staring, unblinking, at a narrow patch of the Milky Way between Cygnus and Lyra for the last three-and-a-half years - waiting for the telltale dimming of a distant star's light as an orbiting planet passes in from of it.

Our village church, St. Lawrence, was celebrated by Shelley (1815) for its "dim and distant spire".

"I'm linked to him for a certain incident in the dim and distant past.

Now, most Kuiper Belt objects are too small, dim and distant for astronomers to learn much about them.

February half-term is but a dim and distant memory – at least it is for the kids.

All of which leads to the conclusion that humans reached our intellectual height in the dim and distant past.

5pm: Bananas, fringing, macramé...it's time for a fashion flashback, to the dim and distant past of last week.

There are cliches either truncated ("the dim and distant", "for the foreseeable") or tweaked ("It was, at first sight, love").