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Example sentences for "meteors"

Lexicographically close words:
meteorologic; meteorological; meteorologist; meteorologists; meteorology; meter; meters; metes; meth; metha
  1. As well understanding (at least probably hoping) except they be watered from higher regions, and fructifying meteors of Knowledge, these weeds must lose their alimental sap, and wither of themselves.

  2. The Devils do know Thee, but those damn'd Meteors Build not thy Glory, but confound thy Creatures.

  3. Meteors are fiery stones which fall on the earth occasionally.

  4. Those are meteors that do not come to the earth.

  5. A stream of meteors is travelling round the sun, and every thirty-three years the earth just comes through them.

  6. Other meteors dart across the sky and disappear, all in a very short time.

  7. Notwithstanding the absence of any collision with my body, the overpowering attraction of the whole mass of meteors was overcoming my tangential force and bearing me in their direction.

  8. Meteors and Comets: their Office in the Solar System.

  9. The collisions among the meteors were constantly increasing in number and violence.

  10. The phenomenon occasioned a general surprise, and no one could conjecture the cause; it could not be a fire, for the light was clear and bluish, nor had meteors ever been seen of that magnitude or splendour.

  11. Then let us constant be as Heaven, Whose laws inviolable are, Not like those rambling meteors there That foretell ills, and disappear.

  12. Their eyes, deep sunk in their sockets, resembled those phosphoric meteors that glimmer by night in places of interment.

  13. It could not be a fire, for the light was clear and bluish; nor had meteors ever been seen of that magnitude or splendour.

  14. And so he passed away, as meteors die; Leaving a trail of splendour here on earth To mark the road he took in virtuous worth, In sterling truth, and rare integrity.

  15. The idea doubtless arose from the showers of August and November meteors (The Perseides and Taurides) which suggest a battle raging in upper air.

  16. Shiháb," these meteors being the flying shafts shot at evil spirits who approach too near Heaven.

  17. And meteors began to fall, keeping the city to their right.

  18. Meteors fell from the sky, and Rahu by swallowing the Sun unseasonably alarmed the people terribly.

  19. An astronomer who "saw reason to think" that the swarm of November meteors this year would be greater than usual, would be surprised if the occurrence of a smaller number were cited in disproof of his astronomical beliefs at large.

  20. The earth crosses the track of these meteors in the middle of November.

  21. Much of the dispersed matter may have been shot far enough into space to escape the gravitational pull of the parent mass, and will be added to the sum of scattered cosmic dust, meteors, and close shoals of meteors (comets) wandering in space.

  22. Moreover, a condensing swarm of meteors would, owing to the heat evolved, tend to pass into a gaseous condition.

  23. Once proved that the markings of Mars are due to erosion, cracks, encircling meteors big enough to raise ridges by their attractive force, then all that has been written in demonstration of their artificial character goes for naught.

  24. An Account of Several Extraordinary Meteors or Lights in the Sky, by Dr.

  25. Since then the spectroscope has added its confirmatory evidence as to the identity of meteorite and shooting-star, and, moreover, has linked these atmospheric meteors with such distant cosmic residents as comets and nebulae.

  26. But after 1752, when Franklin dethroned the lightning, all spectacular meteors came to be regarded as natural phenomena, the aurora among the rest.

  27. And he did more: he declared his belief that these falling stones were really one in origin and kind with those flashing meteors of the upper atmosphere which are familiar everywhere as "shooting-stars.

  28. The meteors that riddled the ship were projectiles shot from their station on Jupiter.

  29. Every swarm of meteors in the solar system was carefully plotted.

  30. One at least should thus be able to escape the meteors which, unimpeded by the thin atmosphere, have begun to strike everywhere, tearing up great craters in the explosion that follows as a result of the impact.

  31. These meteors flame the dazzling doom of kings.

  32. The arch-fiend who reigns over the infernal host has many Court Fools--probably meteors and comets--who lead men astray.

  33. Meteors and lightnings are similarly considered in Hebrew poetry as the messengers of the Almighty.

  34. From mid-heaven like meteors they have rushed upon the earth.

  35. According to Sir Humphry Davy, in the Philosophical Transactions for 1847, “the luminous appearances of shooting stars and meteors cannot be owing to any inflammation of elastic fluids, but must depend upon the ignition of solid bodies.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meteors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asteroid; bends; blackout; meteor; radiation; weightlessness