Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night.
An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
They found a number of deep places, but after looking at them, and poking sticks down into them, Ted decided that none of them had ever held a shooting star.
Well, yes, a part of one, or at least part of a meteor, or shooting star, as they are called.
Here you are," and Bob sprang into the Shooting Star and tossed out three suit cases and a lot of odds and ends of luggage.
And the Shooting Star proved to be an equally desirable adjunct.
The planes were worse, though; Shooting Star didn't take to those kindly at all.
I named her Shooting Star, because she goes like one.
The Kingsmill Islanders deemed a shooting star an omen of death to some member of the family which occupied the part of the council-house nearest to the point of the sky whence the meteor took its flight.
If during their vigil they saw a meteor or shooting star, they inferred that the king had sinned against the deity, and they suspended him from his functions until the Delphic or Olympic oracle should reinstate him in them.
The Tarahumares of Mexico fancy that a shooting star is a dead sorcerer coming to harm a man who harmed him in life.
When the Wotjobaluk tribe of Victoria see a shooting star, they think it is falling with the heart of a man who has been caught by a sorcerer and deprived of his fat.
The Yerrunthally of Queensland think that the souls of the dead climb to a place among the stars by a rope; when they let the rope fall, it 'appeared to people on earth as a shooting star.
The native proverbial explanation of a shooting star establishes, as historical fact, their belief in Tha-Tha-Puli and his home for good spirits.
The "Shooting Star" ascended the Yellowstone several hundred miles further, until brought to a stand still by the rapids in its upper part.
Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night.
Who does not know that beautiful occurrence which we call a shooting star, or which, in its more splendid forms, is sometimes called a meteor or fireball?
We have in this example an illustration of the chief features of the phenomena of a shooting star presented on a very grand scale.
It is, however, to be observed that the persistent luminous streak is not a universal, nor, indeed, a very common characteristic of a shooting star.
A fireball, which is an unusually lurid type of shooting star.
Terry reflected that it had not been their idea to make an appointment with a shooting star.
I am always very much pleased when I see a shooting star, especially in the New Year's night, and then find out for whom the gift of gratitude was intended.
A shooting star lit up the sky, and the boy's thoughts passed in a second from the vapours of the earth up to the shining meteor.
Then, in the quiet silent night, while the full moon was shining, the Dryad saw a spark fly out of the moon's disc, and fall like a shooting star.
In fact, the Shooting Star was shoved off, but a wave threw her back upon the shore.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shooting star" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
