How to Use falling star in a Sentence

falling star

noun

• Since the skies are dark, the nights before and after April 22 should be almost as good for catching a falling star or two.
  — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2020
• The falling stars nod to the asteroid impact and extinction that struck not long after the bird lived.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2020
• Because the only thing everyone likes more than a rising star is a falling star, right?
  — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Mercury is fresh out of retrograde, and 2020 is finally nearing the end, so this is the perfect time to get outside and make a wish on a falling star.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2021
• Parker accompied the tweet with emojis of a black heart, a dove and what appeared to be a falling star, along with the hashtag #MambaForever.
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• This year, the mural has a cat, but it’s a continuation of a theme of day turning to night, and the shooting star or the symbolism of the person catching a falling star.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2021
• Get intergalactic with these bold pants, printed with cosmic graphics inspired by the scene when Howl catches a falling star and places it in his heart.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
• If Trump manages to snag the Republican nomination in 2024 — very far from impossible despite his falling star — Fox will be right there by his side with pompoms and megaphone at the ready.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• This shower in normal years features a magnificent 120 meteors each peak hour, but the remnants of the New Year’s Day supermoon leave us with a bright, waning gibbous moon a few days later to obscure all but a few falling stars.
  — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• Occasionally, that shower has produced a thousand falling stars per minute, though on average watchers usually only see 10 to 15 streaks per hour.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Oct. 2017
• The fossil’s fortuitous position in its lineage, as well as the asteroid impact that followed closely on its heels, inspired the team to give it the name Asteriornis, a nod to Asteria, the Greek goddess of falling stars who transformed into a quail.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024