How To Use Rarefied In A Sentence

Like all literary feuds it began in a suitably rarefied atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
In these rarefied circles, being green brings cachet. Times, Sunday Times
The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections.
You breathe this rarefied air for a very short time. The Sun
She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times

She grew up in a rarefied world of private girls' schools and arranged marriages.
Half of those surveyed said that they were members of the middle class, a social status that was once considered far more rarefied. Times, Sunday Times
The key question has been how far the problems have spread beyond rarefied banking circles. Times, Sunday Times
An appropriately rarefied setting for the ethereal folkie. Times, Sunday Times
He was soaring in rarefied air - and then he looked down. Times, Sunday Times
The 630 guests did their part, contributing high energy and haute fashion to the rarefied party tableau.
It is almost as if the rarefied air of the Capricorn goatfish actually “needs” the soft gentleness of the Libran. Zolar’s Magick Of Color
The action takes place in the 1960s, but the girls' private dramas unfold in a rarefied world, isolated from the political turmoil of the anti-war demos going on outside.
Bespoke bottling is also limited to a rarefied world. Times, Sunday Times
It wasn't quite as rarefied as Royal Ascot, and the weather was dodgy to say the least, but it was still fun to go racing at Ayr.
There are two inflammatory issues that keep cropping up in the rarefied world of British ballet. Times, Sunday Times
The bones are rarefied
Nevertheless, outside the rarefied ateliers of haute couture, few know his name today.
The price of this is a decline in business activity; something that does not impinge on the rarefied world of theoretical economics which central bankers live in. Times, Sunday Times
In these rarefied circles, being green brings cachet. Times, Sunday Times
“Ironically, then, it would seem that the authors of the ‘Copycats’ report, which delineates a wired-up Britain permeated by the ‘copycat’ tendency in the realm of digital artefacts, are themselves unconscious copycats, albeit of a different, more rarefied kind, in the realm of ideas.” Entertainment industry bullshit
In rarefied locations in the city, foreigners ride the rickshaw for a lark.
lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air
I want to loathe Blair, but I am forever mindful of the fact that ... in the real world, in the long run, as opposed to the rarefied ectoplasmic, legalistic fantasy-land of the peaceniks we must endure babbling about us ... in that real world, in the long run, that invasion may have saved my neck and the society I live in. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
A lofty ambition, a rarefied crowd. Times, Sunday Times
At such a rarefied rating level, the Masters would outdraw everything in TV sports except the NFL, some Olympic action and a few marquee college football bowl games. Notah Begay brings unique Tiger Woods perspective to Golf Channel
To less rarefied viewers, it's simply a masterpiece. Times, Sunday Times
At almost 5,000 ft, it is surrounded by rarefied air, seductive silence and dreamy peaks.
Climbers may experience difficulty breathing in the rarefied air at high altitudes.
Hawking's idea of science is that of a rarefied discipline far above the heads of ordinary people and definitely superior to all competing forms of knowledge.
He noticed that after only a few weeks, many of the students were struggling in the rarefied atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Early attempts on the summit failed because of equipment and inexperience, but mainly because the rarefied air at altitude contains just a third of the oxygen of air at sea level.
There are two inflammatory issues that keep cropping up in the rarefied world of British ballet. Times, Sunday Times
The art world is a rarefied place. Times, Sunday Times
The originality, the indefatigability, the uncanny sense of self-promotion, the converting of art into sensibility, put him, it seems to me, into the most rarefied circle.
The Moon has no atmosphere; the Martian atmosphere is highly rarefied.
Naturally I sat up to see what has been happening in the rarefied atmosphere of academia.
For now, the religious factions are facing off in a fairly rarefied and generally peaceable manner.
How does it feel to be breathing such rarefied air?
I have no doubt that if, as many believe, the aurora borealis is produced by sudden cosmic disturbances, such as eruptions at the sun's surface, which set the electrostatic charge of the earth in an extremely rapid vibration, the red glow observed is not confined to the upper rarefied strata of the air, but the discharge traverses, by reason of its very high frequency, also the dense atmosphere in the form of a _glow_, such as we ordinarily produce in a slightly exhausted tube. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
He was soaring in rarefied air - and then he looked down. Times, Sunday Times
The short breathing from the rarefied atmosphere is called by the Chilenos "puna;" and they have most ridiculous notions concerning its origin. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Denver's rarefied air adds about 10 percent to the length of fly balls, making extra base hits too easy.
Nor are the problems confined to the rarefied atmosphere of corporate boardrooms.
After all, people in the rarefied world of showjumping are quite happy to put up with horses named after conservatory companies. Selling sport naming rights is just a load of old Cobras | Harry Pearson
Wonderful hand - painting, perfect color - matching, rarefied costumes, all of these construct a China - style comic.
Net-covered bustiers, two-tone dresses, huge zips on the outside of garments - these are clothes for rarefied tastes and far removed from anything to do with the mass-market high street.
Melissa Hamilton and Eric Underwood make their debuts this season, and physically they are ideal: the visual contrast of Hamilton's translucent fairness against Underwood's dark skin, the bendiness of both their bodies bring a rarefied strangeness to Wheeldon's choreography. Royal Ballet triple bill
Sixty degrees below zero and the air was rarefied and its pressure fatally low for a human lung. Bomber
The constant danger, however, is of having writing and art created for a rarefied audience, art that never reaches playground hoopsters.
The art world is a rarefied place. Times, Sunday Times
All very well in the rarefied air of Marylebone in London, though it is some way from being the talk of the steamie in Edinburgh.
In the rarefied world of supercars the only way to go is up: more power, quicker acceleration, higher top speed.
Therefore, combined with mass and heat transfer in liquid film, it is important for optimizing operation condition and enlarging equipment to study rarefied gas flowing in distillatory.
It's not a perception he wants to encourage at the age of 38, which is verging on old fogeydom in the rarefied world of cutting-edge math.
Now Jo-Beth knew that such human forces had allies on a more rarefied plane of being. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
If that is forfeited, the mind can all too easily float off into rarefied realms that, lofty as they might be, are but a shadow of the consciousness that meditation practices are designed to reveal.
Playing at home in the rarefied air of Mexico City (7,710 feet above sea level), the Mexicans just don't lose.
In the rarefied world of ski property, the news doesn't get much bigger than this. Times, Sunday Times
From that conception, the Aether has been gradually perfected, until we have the conception which has been presented to the reader in Chapter IV., in which I have endeavoured to show that this aetherial medium is matter, but infinitely more rarefied and infinitely more elastic, but notwithstanding its extreme rarefaction and elasticity, it possesses inertia, because it is gravitative. Aether and Gravitation
She entered a rarefied company of pseudo-celebrities known chiefly for their sexual escapades.
There's a sense of delicacy and detail in his approach that saves it from descending into rarefied archness.
The contrast between this rarefied world and the hardship of her upbringing could not be more extreme. Times, Sunday Times
Sixty degrees below zero and the air was rarefied and its pressure fatally low for a human lung. Bomber
In a rarefied atmosphere some slight breathlessness is common. Times, Sunday Times
To less rarefied viewers, it's simply a masterpiece. Times, Sunday Times
The first is that a cloud of methane has been found to co-occur with long-established clouds of water vapour in the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
In the rarefied atmosphere of Davos, amid the snow-covered Swiss mountains and the distant sound of yodelling and alpenhorn, it is easy to lose sight of more down-to-earth issues.
That is more rarefied than the near vacuum in a television cathode ray tube.
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
Chicago construction worker and poet Marc Smith, when he started slam 25 years ago, did so out of Dadaist impulse, as a reaction to the rarefied air of academic readings -- and an unearned rarefied, at that, in his view. Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems
They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense. From a Cornish Window A New Edition
Fussy high-end clients might not think Ikea impressive or exclusive enough for their rarefied tastes.
Being 1,200 m above sea level, the climate is ideal for temperate fruits and vegetables which, like the people in the area, thrive on the somewhat rarefied air and the misty surroundings.
Climbers may experience difficulty breathing in the rarefied air at high altitudes.
The key question has been how far the problems have spread beyond rarefied banking circles. Times, Sunday Times
The program helped talented people develop the rarefied skills of a Disney animator, and it became a fixture of the studio.
On a less rarefied level I also reflected that working abroad would give me the chance to escape from the English class system. ULTIMATE PRIZES
The key question has been how far the problems have spread beyond rarefied banking circles. Times, Sunday Times
A lofty ambition, a rarefied crowd. Times, Sunday Times
The action takes place in the 1960s, but the girls' private dramas unfold in a rarefied world, isolated from the political turmoil going on outside.
The price of this is a decline in business activity; something that does not impinge on the rarefied world of theoretical economics which central bankers live in. Times, Sunday Times
Seems to be one of those rare beasts who gets better as the company he keeps becomes more rarefied. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The contrast between this rarefied world and the hardship of her upbringing could not be more extreme. Times, Sunday Times
What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires.
But it's still a fantastic opportunity to see the national team in the rarefied atmosphere of Brazil. The Sun
The White House press corps is the most rarefied of American journalistic beats.
The focus on the tiny elite has made me breathless in rarefied air. Times, Sunday Times
But unlike the tradition of poetry as a rarefied pursuit, the Liverpool poets took their writing to the stage and rapidly developed a huge following.
From that base he could assume political office and power, and that was what young Washington aimed for: enough land and wealth to join that rarefied circle, buttressed by an honorable reputation however earned. George Washington’s First War
Net-covered bustiers, two-tone dresses, huge zips on the outside of garments - these are clothes for rarefied tastes and far removed from anything to do with the mass-market high street.
Little Jasper Cosmo will have no problems amid the rarefied social circles occupied by the Howards, but he would find he was joshed at an inner city comprehensive.
In most cases, such concentrations of atoms are so rarefied that the chances of colliding are infinitesimal.
Ordinarily only the fittest are allowed to survive in the rarefied air of the summit. Times, Sunday Times
Like all literary feuds it began in a suitably rarefied atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
You breathe this rarefied air for a very short time. The Sun
She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, combined with mass and heat transfer in liquid film, it is important for optimizing operation condition and enlarging equipment to study rarefied gas flowing in distillatory.
It is important for the state's future administrators to get out of the rarefied air of the capital.
It's hard to describe the delightfully off-centre tone of her work; the film's sense of humour is a rarefied one, and it takes a matter-of-fact approach to some bizarre situations.
It opens with lush images of the palatial school and grounds, then enters the rarefied world within.
For heaven's sake, you've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember.
His rhythm was beat out into the rarefied air - breath, ice pick in, step, breath, ice pick in, step. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
It looked like anger to me, in rarefied form, which seemed capable of burning with very little oxygen. BLOOD IS DIRT
At almost 5,000 ft, it is surrounded by rarefied air, seductive silence and dreamy peaks.
When pitcher Mike Hampton signed with the Colorado Rockies, many people wondered aloud whether he would fall victim to the rarefied air of the Mile High city.
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
Increasingly, retailers and manufacturers are questioning whether Gore can continue to thrive at such rarefied levels.
Everest conquest today is often more a triumph of modern equipment, where anyone with the money and the inclination can gulp that highly addictive, rarefied air.
At the beginning of the 1960s a scholarship boy attends a rarefied private school obsessed with literature.
There are tabloid rags that sully the name of reporting, and there are informed, articulate blogs that raise this medium to a far more rarefied level.
Now Parling has to prove it in the most rarefied atmosphere of all. Times, Sunday Times
The stall holder remonstrated with him and demanded payment for the rarefied comestible. Times, Sunday Times
That said, I recognise that there are perfectly sensible people who prefer Beethoven to the Beatles, and who choose to discuss things at a more rarefied level than I care to myself.
Kent is oblivious to the fact that he couldn't possibly fit into this rarefied social environment, where the Social Dance is as complex as a gavotte.
It was known that when an electric discharge passes in a glass tube through a sufficiently rarefied gas, the part facing the cathode is illuminated by a fluorescence on which the shadow of any obstacle placed in front of the cathode is outlined; and that the cathode rays definable in this way, are deflected by the magnetic field, describing a circular trajectory when they are thrown at right angles to a uniform field (Hittorf). Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture
Thousands of feet above sea level, the air is clear but rarefied.
In other words, they represent the texture of the real world, not the rarefied existence of aspirant high achievers.
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
But it's still a fantastic opportunity to see the national team in the rarefied atmosphere of Brazil. The Sun
Ordinarily only the fittest are allowed to survive in the rarefied air of the summit. Times, Sunday Times
Mostly it's discussed only in rarefied design circles, but its ripples are beginning to spread. Times, Sunday Times
I'm even among that rarefied sub-set within WoW players -- a raider, which is to say, that I get together for several hours every few nights with twenty-four other people scattered across the globe to take on the most difficult encounters the game has to offer. My Secret Life
He noticed that after only a few weeks, many of the students were struggling in the rarefied atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Few would guess that the man who composed these two rarefied choral works also composed the works on the second CD.
THE classical music world is a rarefied place. The Sun
Well, it seems he had been working for years at the ultimate problem of matter, and especially of that rarefied matter we call aether or space. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
THE classical music world is a rarefied place. The Sun
Mostly it's discussed only in rarefied design circles, but its ripples are beginning to spread. Times, Sunday Times
In the rarefied world of ski property, the news doesn't get much bigger than this. Times, Sunday Times
He came plunging down from the rarefied empyrean of his peak in Darien to walk among us. David Arquette? The subtle art of the C-SPAN breakup
Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons. Within The Castle Walls
I thought she breathed overfast, though all of us did in the rarefied air of these heights. Dark Piper
And at these rarefied heights it is popular marques such as Volkswagen, Peugeot and Renault, which recently entered the luxury market, that are bearing the brunt of the price falls.
Bespoke bottling is also limited to a rarefied world. Times, Sunday Times
To sustain this kind of stamina, they are exquisitely adapted to the rarefied mountain air of their high-altitude stomping grounds.
Seems to be one of those rare beasts who gets better as the company he keeps becomes more rarefied. Times, Sunday Times
The rarefied air requires a mandatory period of two or three days enforced rest on arrival in order to ward off headaches and mountain sickness.
Of course, you could also argue that Bob was smart enough to get himself into those rarefied realms in the first place, but there is a lot more to that than ’smart.’ Power Line on the Minimum Wage
Along the route the partially preserved carcasses of dead pack horses, slow to rot in the rarefied atmosphere and freezing cold, lay twisted among the boulders.
Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant.
In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love.
The focus on the tiny elite has made me breathless in rarefied air. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
I mourn to know as humbugs, and the same convent parlour with its piano and the sitting round the fire, and the same supper, and the same lone night in a cell, and the same bright fresh morning when going out into the highly rarefied air was like a plunge into an icy bath. Reprinted Pieces
Now Parling has to prove it in the most rarefied atmosphere of all. Times, Sunday Times
At 4900m Konzke La is the highest point of this trail; all but the fittest puff and pant in such rarefied air.
Theories of the general interstellar medium require that these large rarefied cavities exist, and astronomers believe the cavities were formed by the combined action of energetic supernova events and the outflowing winds of clusters of hot and young stars. Local Interstellar Gas Mapped in 3-D | Universe Today
She did not seem to like the rarefied atmosphere over the Atlantic and proceeded to drop her oxygen level to 30% on a regular basis.
It is the rarefied cultural world of museums, art galleries and arts councils where talented and ambitious administrators and their equally intelligent and powerful committees and chairpersons play the role of patron.
She portrays him as an outsider in the rarefied academic atmosphere of Oxford university.
In a rarefied atmosphere some slight breathlessness is common. Times, Sunday Times

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