NOUN
- a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
How To Use shooting star In A Sentence
- Everyone put their fingers in their ears when the shooting started.
- Shooting starch goes a long way in erasing the barrier between spectator and spectacle.
- Before dawn, the sky cleared and a shooting star streaked overhead.'see that ?
- Altogether it is rather like skinny-dipping in a lake of shooting stars on the happiest day of your childhood.
- I know it wasn't a plane, a satellite nor a bolide, meteor, fireball or a shooting star.
- Ulrika Jonsson has been papped and probed not because of a job she did 20 years ago, nor because of her later work presenting Gladiators, serving as team captain on Shooting Stars, or appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, but because of her love life. The Saturday interview: Ulrika Jonsson
- Once this space material starts falling toward Earth, it's called a meteoroid, and when it penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, it becomes a meteor, which is the term used to describe the visible "shooting star" portion. CBC | Top Stories News
- Without the meteorograph, rigid accuracy in the observation of shooting stars is unattainable, and rigid accuracy is the A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
- As shooting stars flew earthwards in the upper right-hand corner of the monitor, I felt music in my ears as the web site came into focus and miraculously appeared.
- A shooting star sped across the sky.
