blasted off; blasting off; blasts off
: take off sense 1b
—used especially of rocket-propelled missiles and vehicles
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Examples of blastoff in a Sentence
Noun
the mission was scrubbed just minutes before blastoff
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Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
An anthology of 11 stories, The Devil’s Cut was an 88-page blastoff that sold out of the more than 50,000 copies at the distributor level, landing it among the top-selling books of August.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
Psyche received a booming blastoff from the Falcon Heavy rocket, with 27 kerosene-burning engines providing an initial boost out of the atmosphere.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
Following the scheduled blastoff Monday, NASA aims to take Orion around the moon and back on a roughly six-week trek.
—WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
Following blastoff, the first stage of the super heavy rocket is expected to splash down about 20 miles off the coast of Boca Chica while the Starship vehicle orbits around the globe before splashing down off the coast of Hawaii.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2023
The 38-year-old Kikina, the only active-duty female in Russia's cosmonaut corps, will join Crew 5 commander Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada and Japanese veteran Koichi Wakata for blastoff from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 12 p.m. ET Wednesday.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2022
Iran aired footage of the blastoff against the backdrop of negotiations in Vienna to restore Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2021
Ready for blastoff!
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 9 June 2020
Gina Sunseri, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
Business SpaceX Starship successfully blasts off on its third test flight.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The Falcon rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in late afternoon, carrying the three men, all with military pilot experience and representing their homelands.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off in a mountainous area filled with trees then exploding five seconds later.
—Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
The private lander blasted off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, catching a ride on a brand new rocket.
—USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
Another Falcon 9 blasted off in dense fog from Cape Canaveral, boosting 23 more Starlink internet relay satellites into orbit.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024
In 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
Noun
The launchpad also was damaged on blastoff — sending debris flying across nearly 400 acres.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
An anthology of 11 stories, The Devil’s Cut was an 88-page blastoff that sold out of the more than 50,000 copies at the distributor level, landing it among the top-selling books of August.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
Psyche received a booming blastoff from the Falcon Heavy rocket, with 27 kerosene-burning engines providing an initial boost out of the atmosphere.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
Following the scheduled blastoff Monday, NASA aims to take Orion around the moon and back on a roughly six-week trek.
—WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
Following blastoff, the first stage of the super heavy rocket is expected to splash down about 20 miles off the coast of Boca Chica while the Starship vehicle orbits around the globe before splashing down off the coast of Hawaii.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2023
The 38-year-old Kikina, the only active-duty female in Russia's cosmonaut corps, will join Crew 5 commander Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada and Japanese veteran Koichi Wakata for blastoff from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 12 p.m. ET Wednesday.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2022
Iran aired footage of the blastoff against the backdrop of negotiations in Vienna to restore Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2021
Ready for blastoff!
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 9 June 2020
Verb
The unmanned spaceship blasted off successfully from the company's base in Boca Chica, Texas, at 8:25 a.m. local time.
—Gina Sunseri, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
Business SpaceX Starship successfully blasts off on its third test flight.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The Falcon rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in late afternoon, carrying the three men, all with military pilot experience and representing their homelands.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off in a mountainous area filled with trees then exploding five seconds later.
—Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
The private lander blasted off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, catching a ride on a brand new rocket.
—USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
Another Falcon 9 blasted off in dense fog from Cape Canaveral, boosting 23 more Starlink internet relay satellites into orbit.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024
In 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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