How to Use stardust in a Sentence

stardust

noun
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  • If princes and princesses are the stardust of fairy-tales, queens are the heroines.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The folks on the red carpet gave us stardust at a time when there’s a lot of darkness in the culture.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The sleeves here are the star, hanging off her arms like clouds speckled with stardust.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But music biopics need to be equal parts stardust and sawdust to work.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Amanda Morgan hoped some of the city’s stardust might rub off on her.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The game’s greatest stardust at the planet’s loudest Slam?
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The first citizen science game to fight Alzheimer’s - built on stardust?
    — Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Now these animal look-alikes, comprised of stars and stardust, number in the dozens.
    — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The process formed a cloud of stardust that could have blocked Betelgeuse’s light from eager earthbound viewers.
    — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Like a cloud of stardust, a smattering of extra glamour falls upon the city.
    — Skye McAlpine, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
  • The good news is, unlike many of her other pop star peers, Rihanna wants to share a little bit of this stardust with us.
    — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Time is told by the rising up and rolling down of the sunlight on the cliffs, by the glimpse of Cassiopeia in the narrows turning around the polestar through the stardust of perfect clear September nights.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Short chains of amino acids can even spontaneously form on stardust.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Sights, sounds, and scenes come rushing back like a strong narcotic to catapult you into the stardust of your life.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That has inspired countless clubs, large and small, to try to distill and import the magic, to find someone to sprinkle a little of that stardust on them.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • In some ways, the scene hasn’t changed: there are still fame-seekers and exhibitionists, still tourists searching for stardust.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • To help grease the wheels, Niantic is letting players do five special trades and reducing the stardust cost by 50 percent.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • But Fenway Sports Group, the club’s owner, is not the sort to be distracted by sentiment, or dazzled by stardust.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • And dominating all, the Milky Way itself, an effulgent tide of stardust and suns.
    — Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Khan-Cullors listened as Tyson explained how humans, and the atoms and molecules in their bodies, are made out of the very stardust that helped create the universe.
    — Timothy Bella, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Listen with attentive commitment and the stardust in your neurons might feel it, too.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • A group of scientists have spotted stardust in one of the most distant galaxies ever found.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2017
  • For all its celebrity stardust, the city of angels, which is the second most populous city in the country, got dinged for high prices and horrific commutes.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Reddinger talked about the brand’s use of Aerogel, which was previously used to capture stardust and insulate the Mars Rover Unit.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That implied that humans, or at least the elements making up our bodies, were once stardust.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Notts County’s stardust extends no further than the singer Jake Bugg, born in Nottingham, who sponsors the club’s away jerseys.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Out on the road again, even with Dame Helen Mirren around to do any introductory honors, stardust will surely be in the air.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 May 2023
  • In a bid to sprinkle some of the big-name stardust over Live Audio Rooms, Facebook also seems intent on getting celebrities and sports stars involved.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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