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• That year, a meteor fell from the sky.From the entry sky
• The meteor burned up in the atmosphere.From the entry up
• The sound system counted down the seconds to meteor impact.From the entry count down
• The meteor streaked across the sky.From the entry across
• Such temperatures are impossible today barring a massive meteor strike or gigantic underwater volcano eruption.2005 September 16, Stephen Leahy, “The Dawn of the Hypercane?”, in ipsnews.net/news, archived from the original on 17 May 2008. From the entry hypercane
• Meteors scatter when they fall, so we soon realized we were seeing something else.2001, Philip L. Rife, America's Nightmare Monsters, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry star shower
• Most meteors appear as faint streaks in the sky.2023 December 13, Carrie Hodgin, Brian Slocum, “When is the Best Time to View the Meteor Shower? Everything to Know about the Geminids…. From the entry visualize
• If you hopped on Fortnite and witnessed the meteor shower, you may be wondering how common that is in real life.2018 May 1, Trevor Nace, “'Fortnite' Season 4: The Science Behind The Epic Meteor Shower”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 28 Nov…. From the entry hop on
• Shooting stars, meteors, and bizarre occurrences were commonplace.2013, "Pete", The Mexican Fisherman, page 45. From the entry 10.0
• These include spears, blowguns, rocks, sticks, morning stars, nail bats, punjisticks, torches, bolas, chakras, atlatls, meteor hammers, quarterstaffs, ballistas and slingshots.2011, Allen Smith, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain. From the entry nail bat
• They did happen around me; they were the meteors that landed (apparently quite often) in everyone’s hypergreen backyard but mine.2000, Jesse Green, The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry hypergreen
• "She is coming down like a meteor," exclaimed Professor Kaye.1908, Raymond McDonald, The Mad Scientist: A Tale of the Future, Cochrane Publishing Company, page 242. From the entry mad scientist
• Yet the world never before saw a meteor like this.1908, Raymond McDonald, The Mad Scientist: A Tale of the Future, Cochrane Publishing Company, page 242. From the entry mad scientist
• It makes me feel better that I’m not the only one who fantasizes about being struck down by a meteor on my way to work.2023 December 2, Tim Graham, “American Psychological Association Announces “Feeling Like Dying But Not Really Suicidal” New Baseline For…. From the entry actively
• The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.2002, Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics, page 560. From the entry tangential
• Since the perspective of the observer is just one lakhth part of the earth’s atmosphere, about one million visible meteors fall on earth every hour.2002 September, Rajendra Kumar ‘Rajiv’, “The Discovery of Meteors and Meteor Showers”, in World-Famous Discoveries, 18th edition, New…. From the entry lakhth
• A computer program especially suited to the simulation of Earth-grazing meteors has been listed and described in the Astronomical Computing department of Sky & Telescope.1991 August, D. W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, K. M. Watson, “Computer Simulation of Earth-grazing Fireballs”, in WGN, volume 19, number 4…. From the entry Earth-grazing
• This year's display is particularly favorable because the shower peaks on the night of the new moon, leaving skies free from bright moonlight that can wash out fainter meteors.2026 August 12, Daisy Dobrijevic, “Perseid meteor shower peaks under perfect skies tonight — here's what to expect”, in Space.com…. From the entry wash out
• Unlike most meteor showers that peak on one or two nights, these are long-running meteor showers that have plateaulike peaks that extend through the first half of the month.2022 April 11, Brian Lada, “Moon to turn red during last total lunar eclipse until 2025”, in AccuWeather. From the entry plateaulike
• The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century.2008 March, Steve Batterson, “The Father of the Father of American Mathematics”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume…. From the entry chicken or egg question
• The program allows for the curvature of the Earth; it is therefore possible to follow an Earth-grazing meteor as it descends, reaches perigee, and then ascends back into space.1991 August, D. W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, K. M. Watson, “Computer Simulation of Earth-grazing Fireballs”, in WGN, volume 19, number 4…. From the entry Earth-grazing
• Suddenly, those watchers – and millions of others around the globe – were startled by news of a superbolide, or super bright meteor, above the region of Chelyabinsk in Russia.2016 February 15, Deborah Byrd, “Chelyabinsk meteor mystery 3 years later”, in earthsky.org, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020. From the entry superbolide
• It also revolves around a symbolic essential substance: in this case, a crystalline icelike material, mined from a meteor, that can awaken the power of speech in selected human hearts.2007 April 15, Ken Kalfus, “They Had a Hammer”, in New York Times. From the entry icelike

Meaning of meteor

1. noun An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
2. noun A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star.
3. noun A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.

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How do you use meteor in a sentence?

Meteor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That year, a meteor fell from the sky.”

What is a short sentence with meteor?

“The meteor streaked across the sky.”

What does meteor mean?

Meteor means an atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).