How to Use rocket in a Sentence

rocket

1 of 2 noun

• The rockets have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2023
• If the rocket does pose a threat, the Iron Dome fires missiles from the ground to destroy it in the air.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• The rocket goes off at 8 a.m. setting free six bulls and six steers.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• SpaceX announced that the rocket will now launch tonight.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2024
• Specifics of how the rocket failed and the actions the company must take weren’t released.
  — Alan Levin, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The first two satellites launched on a SpaceX rocket four years later.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• India will provide the landing ship, Japan the launch rocket and rover.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• While the name is a mouthful, the new rocket will also be used for travel between Earth and the moon.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
• The rocket would touch down on Earth roughly five years after the orbiter’s launch.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
• Finally, the last layer will take cues from SpaceX and act as a launch and landing site for rockets.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
• And that meant building a 19-foot-high capsule, rocket and launching pad.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• To launch the rocket, inflate the pouch by blowing into the flexible straw.
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• Instead of crashing to earth, the rocket fired again and powered itself to a soft — but very hot and smoky — landing.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Threads took off like a rocket, with its close linkage to Instagram as the booster.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
• But Russian drones picked up the gathering of soldiers and fired rockets at them.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The project has faced a number of delays over the years, from struggles fitting it on top of a rocket to software problems.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 May 2024
• The rockets will look for changes in the upper atmosphere as the amount of incoming sunlight drops.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• In one community, four boys were killed when a Hamas rocket struck their house.
  — Majd Al-Waheidi, NPR, 5 May 2024
• Crow-Armstrong ran down a 107.1 mph rocket off Nolan Jones’ bat to make a leaping catch, robbing him of extra bases off the wall.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Later, even more scaffolding will rise to the top of the 116-foot solid rocket motors.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Safir is an Iranian rocket used to place satellites in orbit.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• Over the years, the rocket man has performed in a number of extremely bold (and often sequined!) getups.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2024
• The former Louisville backstop is known for his powerful bat and rocket arm.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
• During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The rocket engine depletes much of its fuel—and oxidant—en route to the target.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2023
• North Korea may have tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a boost to the Russian army, analysts say.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Ice on the moon’s South Pole is expected to be used to make rocket fuel and allow astronauts to drink.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Tehran’s puppets controlling Yemen have launched dozens of drones and rockets at ships passing through the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• The rocket grenade attack gone wrong in one masterful, hillside shot.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The launch was the 10th at the base this year, according to Space X. Around the country, the rockets have evoked awe, especially for those unaccustomed.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024

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rocket

2 of 2 verb

• His role in the movie rocketed him to fame.
• The train rocketed through the tunnel.
• Her novel rocketed to the top of the best-seller list.
• Their album rocketed up the charts.
• The spacecraft rocketed into outer space.
• Jared Stroud rocketed a goal in for 1-0 in the third minute.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2023
• One of them will have to rocket from the bottom tier to the top tier by the end of summer.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Mar. 2023
• Karl killed the motors and the lights, letting the air, fizzing into the ballast tanks, rocket us to the surface.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Stocks are no longer rocketing straight to the heavens.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• Richardson exploded out of the blocks, rocketed around the turn and sped to the finish line in 21.61.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• Often, there doesn’t seem to be much of a rhyme or reason to the way random movies seem to rocket up the streamer’s list.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2022
• The plug-in-hybrid SUV rocketed to 60 mph in 5.4 seconds.
  — Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 11 May 2023
• Within minutes, the news had rocketed around the globe.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
• Buckner is among the state's top sophomores with the potential to rocket up this list over the next year.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• Acts like Clipse and Young Jeezy took off on the site, and their careers rocketed to national renown.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• But rocketing housing prices and a tight market mean that’s simply not in the cards for her at the moment.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
• Shares of Meta have rocketed this year and jumped more than 160% since January.
  — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But that was before electric cars became a big deal, and the price of lithium started to rocket.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 11 May 2022
• These four celebrities have all demonstrated that a little twist of strange can rocket your look to the next level of cool.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• The explosive 18-year-old took the Big East by storm as a freshman and has been rocketing up draft boards ever since.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
• The impact shattered the plane, and pieces of the cabin rocketed forward onto the runway.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The real head-scratcher is how the movie was able to rocket up the Netflix charts, given the less-than-stellar reaction to it.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 June 2022
• The two had folded themselves into the back seat of a pedicab and were rocketing uptown.
  — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
• Year-to-date inflows to crypto funds has rocketed above $5.2 billion thanks to bitcoin ETF hype.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Bush rocketed in the polls, framing his opponent, Democrat Michael Dukakis, as weak on crime.
  — Clay Cane, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• Launched in 2022, the Shark multi-styler hair dryer quickly rocketed to viral fame as a Dyson Airwrap dupe.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2023
• Freeze, nuke, or rocket your way to the top using powerful abilities called Boosts to achieve higher scores.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022
• And perhaps most crucially, how will the samples successfully rocket off the surface of Mars and back to Earth?
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
• Tom Schwartz had to rocket to another planet to truly grapple with the issues weighing him down on Earth.
  — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• Gold prices rocketed as investors sought to buy up the precious metal, which many thought would be a safer investment during rocky economic times.
  — Simeon Tegel, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024