How to Use meteorite in a Sentence

meteorite

noun

• More than a few meteorites have reached us from the Moon and Mars.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• So in this case, the object that hit the house would be a meteorite.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• One night, while singing in the shower, he is hit on the head by a strange meteorite.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 May 2024
• The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• So, the team began to look into ways to study the Mars meteorite more in-depth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
• So then my father put me on a meteoriteSent me to Earth to rock the mic.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• The news of the day was that a small meteorite had fallen on a village in northwest Spain.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
• The men in black delivered a meteorite that crashed in 1988 to the stage for Cyclops's mega clue.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• At first, it was thought that the hole may have been caused by a tiny meteorite slamming into the Soyuz.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
• Those that survive a trip through the atmosphere and hit the Earth's ground are called a meteorite.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
• The museum was able to buy this meteorite from Boudreaux in late 2020.
  — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
• One meteorite was found while dragging the corpse of the detector rig back to camp.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 2 May 2020
• The leader of a gang must help his group survive when aliens begin to fall from the sky from a meteorite fall.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• The few that survive the trip through the atmosphere and reach the ground are considered meteorites.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The main attraction is a crater where, millions of years ago, a meteorite touched down.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• What is a meteorite? Meteoroids are small rocks that are still in space.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
• The group later shared a picture of a meteorite someone had found.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
• More meteorites are found in Antarctica than in any other place in the world.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• The cenotes are a result of a giant, 80-mile-wide meteorite that smashed into the ocean off the northern tip of the peninsula.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
• This hints that the meteorite was likely a IAB type and originally had a mass of at least two tons.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• Eliot and Tim from Blue Stinger were prepping a Christmas party when the meteorite hit.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• And, of course, there were meteorites and countless fossils.
  — Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024
• When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• The blazing fireball sent meteorite hunters scrambling to find fragments of the rare space rock.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 9 July 2018
• Did the Pharisee Saul witness a meteorite fall on the road to Damascus?
  — Steven Poole, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• The grain was extracted from the Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969.
  — Sachiko Amari, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
• The impact of a meteorite ranges from an Alabama woman’s giant bruise to the end of the dinosaurs.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• Other pieces of the meteorite have been recovered in the local area.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• Iridium is rare on Earth but more common in some meteorites.
  — Hans Sues, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• While carbonaceous chondrites make up the majority of rocks in space, only about 5% of the meteorites that fall to Earth belong to this category.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024