How to Use meteor in a Sentence

meteor

noun

• Last year, light from a bright moon washed out many of the meteors.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• The agency said the last meteor storm occurred in 2002.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• The meteors from this shower appear to emanate from this area of stars in the night sky.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• The meteors will seem to be originating from this spot in the sky.
  — Caroline Hetzel, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The best time to look for meteors is in the early morning hours, around 2 to 4 a.m. local time.
  — Tiffany Acosta arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
• The Quadrantids meteor shower will peak the night of Jan. 3 through the morning of Jan. 4.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The meteors will be in the northeastern part of the sky by the constellation Perseus.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2023
• On its way down, Hubble would streak through the skies like a meteor and then fall into the sea.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Don’t forget the Perseid meteors, which will be reaching peak in the overnight — get away from the lights.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Ursid meteor shower will peak the night of December 21, which is the longest night of the year.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• The streaks of light are caused by the glowing, hot air as meteors speed through Earth's atmosphere.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
• How to see a meteor The Lyrids may not be the most active of the annual showers.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• That's the sound of what experts say was a meteor over the weekend in the Northern Utah and Southern Idaho area.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
• Filled with cinder cones and craters, the area looked like it had been hit by both a volcanic eruption and a meteor strike.
  — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• However, the search for fragments of a meteor that lit up the sky in the region in 2016 wasn’t fruitful, Pitt said.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The light can vary in color, but most meteors last only a second or two.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• The meteor was a bit of an anomaly, largely due to its robust nature and speed.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• When a space rock enters the atmosphere on its own and burns up, it's called a meteor, or shooting star.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
• The leading and likely theory behind the boom is that it was caused by a meteor.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2022
• The Lyrids peak on the night of April 22-23 but are generally a second-tier meteor shower.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2022
• This year’s showing will be somewhat muted, as a fuller moon will obscure many of the meteors.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
• Annual meteor showers are the best times to see a meteor streak across the sky.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2022
• In some parts of the county, stargazers can expect to see up to 120 meteors per hour streaking across the sky, according to Fried.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• In the island country of Malta, people saw as many as 480 meteors per minute.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• Where does the Orionid meteor shower appear in the sky?
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
• Viewers at dark sky locations may be able to see as many as 130 meteors an hour.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The government also published the meteor’s light curve, a graph of its brightness over time.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Watch near the Ursa Minor constellation that night and evening to see up to three meteors per hour.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
• That said, 10 to 20 meteors per hour is more likely, according to EarthSky.org.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2023
• But at its height, the Lyrid shower should spin off 20 meteors an hour and even the occasional fireball.
  — Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024