How to Use stardust in a Sentence

stardust

noun
  • But music biopics need to be equal parts stardust and sawdust to work.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The sleeves here are the star, hanging off her arms like clouds speckled with stardust.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2023
  • If princes and princesses are the stardust of fairy-tales, queens are the heroines.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Amanda Morgan hoped some of the city’s stardust might rub off on her.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Short chains of amino acids can even spontaneously form on stardust.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • But that was 20 years ago and the current list of their players does not have the same type of stardust.
    — Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
  • And then, a phone call, one that made everything become as micro as stardust.
    — Francesca Sloane, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Now these animal look-alikes, comprised of stars and stardust, number in the dozens.
    — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The first citizen science game to fight Alzheimer’s - built on stardust?
    — Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Like a cloud of stardust, a smattering of extra glamour falls upon the city.
    — Skye McAlpine, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Joy's mother also turns into stardust to join her daughter in the cosmos.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The stardust in your body will live on in desert sand, rainforest canopies, and the bodies of human beings.
    — Keith Wagstaff, Popular Science, 5 June 2024
  • But…who doesn’t love that sprinkle of studio stardust and a bit of Hollywood bling along the way.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The process formed a cloud of stardust that could have blocked Betelgeuse’s light from eager earthbound viewers.
    — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • That implied that humans, or at least the elements making up our bodies, were once stardust.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • Listen with attentive commitment and the stardust in your neurons might feel it, too.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • It’s grounded in universal truths, whether that’s stardust, water, or just stillness.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This is really the magnetism that accompanies my shoes and their soles covered in stardust.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • We’re made of stardust for a reason, and the key to our liberation has always existed within us.
    — refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
  • From their analyses, Bennu seems to be a blend of pre-solar stardust along with organic compounds likely forged in space.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • And dominating all, the Milky Way itself, an effulgent tide of stardust and suns.
    — Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • But while we are all made of stardust, there seems to be a lot more of it in the universe than scientists can explain from a basic cataloging of obvious sources.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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