How to Use Pleiades in a Sentence

Pleiades

plural noun
  • See the Pleiades star cluster above and left of the moon.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2024-01-02
  • Usefully, the Pleiades open star cluster will shine to the left of the pair.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2022-07-31
  • Uranus will appear to be near the Pleiades, a bright star cluster that is visible to the naked eye.
    — Gretchen Rundorff, WIRED, 2025-01-17
  • This is an open cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 2024-02-11
  • Matariki is deeply rooted in star lore, signaled by the rising of the Pleiades star cluster.
    — Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2021-10-02
  • The Pleiades star cluster will appear to the lower right of the full moon, but it may be masked by the moon's brightness.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2023-11-26
  • At 444 light-years away, the Pleiades is one of the closest star clusters to Earth.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-07-05
  • In fact, the Pleiades star cluster is one of my favorite sights when stargazing at home in Cleveland.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 2025-02-13
  • Jeff Cohen shot the image of the Pleiades cluster from his backyard over a four-hour period.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2023-11-09
  • Teide 1 was identified in the famous Pleiades star cluster.
    — Katelyn Allers, Scientific American, 2021-08-01
  • Neither the Pleiades nor the Andromeda Galaxy fully fit in its view.
    — PCMAG, 2024-05-16
  • Uranus is just below the Pleiades open star cluster, while Neptune is just to the upper-right of Saturn.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One dense clump of stars seems to represent the Pleiades (and more accurately than the Lascaux cave painting).
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2023-01-13
  • Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters.
    — ArsTechnica, 2025-07-08
  • Above, and a little to the right of Orion, is the constellation Taurus the Bull, home of the Pleiades star cluster.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 2025-02-02
  • In Greek and Roman mythology, Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades and was a fertility goddess.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2025-01-13
  • Gordon became the principal beneficiary of Pleiades, which the lawsuit says his daughters will inherit after his death.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2022-06-21
  • The trust that Gordon created was named Pleiades, for a set of sisters in Greek myth who had dalliances with Olympian gods and were immortalized as stars in the night sky.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 2023-01-16
  • McDowell says this is because the Airbus Pleiades satellite likely snapped the photo using different spectral bands.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2025-04-14
  • The video recounts several fables about the Pleiades, which were associated with a group of sisters by various far-flung, culturally disconnected peoples.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2023-05-02
  • The layout of the Mayan calendar is represented through the resort's circular buildings, which reflects the position of the Pleiades constellation.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 2025-01-20
  • Certain landscapes were burned upon the appearance of the Pleiades, popularly known as the Seven Sisters star cluster — known in Karuk folklore as the seven wives of the coyotes — and never during bird mating season, according to tribal leaders.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 2020-10-11
  • An 8-inch telescope will grant a magnificent view of the cluster's white-blue stellar population shining through tenuous clouds of interstellar dust, while also making Uranus detectable as a tiny aqua dot less than 5 degrees to the lower right of the Pleiades on Aug 16.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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