How to Use meteor in a Sentence

meteor

noun
  • Here’s how to catch the best meteor light show of the year.
    Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
  • With the moon out of the way, up to a dozen meteors an hour may be seen.
    Arnold Pearlstein, sun-sentinel.com, 28 July 2019
  • Last year, light from a bright moon washed out many of the meteors.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Now the search is on for meteorites -- parts of the meteor -- on the ground.
    Elaine Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 25 July 2021
  • The meteors come from the dust trail of an unknown comet.
    Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The best time to watch the meteors is usually in the pre-dawn hours.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
  • Look to the sky this August for a chance to see a meteor streak across the horizon.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • Expect to see a few meteors streak across the sky in an hour.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The meteors will rain like sparks from the hero’s righteous blade.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • The agency said the last meteor storm occurred in 2002.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The storm was closing in, and meteors pelted the ground.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • This will let your eyes adjust to the dark skies and spot the meteor showers.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
  • How to watch the Perseid meteor shower in the Bay Area this week.
    Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • In light of the meteor hurtling toward Earth, please plan to have that five-year road map to me by E.O.W. (end of world).
    Carlos Greaves, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Here’s how to view the Perseid meteor shower in the Bay Area.
    Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • That means observers should face the eastern sky to see the most meteors.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The meteors will last all night until dawn on the morning of May 6.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Huge excess of carbon dioxide was the cause of three of those, a meteor the fourth.
    Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Wham, the churlish AI wipes us all out, not even waiting for the meteor to do so.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The very early hours of today are the best time to see the peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • The best views of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower will come in the hours before dawn.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 May 2022
  • 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
  • The dust trails that cause many meteor showers are fed by comets.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In late April, the Lyrid meteor shower will hit its peak.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Audiences will witness how life finds a way to survive on a planet where meteors fall, super volcanoes erupt, seas boil and the land moves.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 May 2025
  • All that said, this tale of an Earth on which dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by a meteor is visually stunning, imagining an unspoiled American Northwest in which the mighty reptiles rule.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025

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