How to Use rocket ship in a Sentence
rocket ship
noun-
The rocket ship is your body and your hands are the space shuttle.
— Dave Melton, Post-Tribune, 23 June 2018 -
The words Wicked Bold were on some clouds and a rocket ship was breaking through.
— Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 May 2023 -
The anchors in your riptide, the fuel in your rocket ship….
— Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2023 -
The rocket ship that got him through high school was just rainbows and pixie dust.
— J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020 -
So loud, the sound of dozens of four-wheel rocket ships was drowned out by cheers for Danica Patrick.
— Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018 -
That buys them a ride on the winged rocket ship, which is dropped in flight from the carrier airplane.
— Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019 -
Obviously, Rutgers is not on a rocket ship to the top of the Big Ten.
— Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2020 -
Riders will be placed in rocket ships being pulled — and swirled around — by aliens in space ships.
— Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2018 -
But the tech too finicky and expensive, and the customers felt like they were being asked to buy a rocket ship.
— Richard Bishop, Forbes, 6 June 2022 -
The rocket ship, so to speak, is probably due for a crash-landing.
— J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 12 June 2020 -
So step into this rocket ship -- and let your mind take off and explore freely.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Mar. 2021 -
That’s like asking brain surgeons to build a rocket ship.
— WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022 -
Owner Hank Gelhaus was most set on restoring the rides, such as the rocket ship rides above.
— Nicole Bonaccorso, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017 -
The rocket ship had lifted off and crypto mania was in full force.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 June 2022 -
But then don’t be too attached to getting there by bus or rocket ship.
— Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 29 June 2021 -
Crypto’s rocket ship to the moon crash-landed back on Earth in the second quarter.
— Paul Vigna, WSJ, 30 June 2022 -
The rocket ship is an ode to his favorite subject: science.
— Ana Faguy, baltimoresun.com, 13 May 2021 -
Carpenter always seems to bring rocket ships to the Speedway, as his car has started in the front row three of the past five years.
— Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2018 -
Perhaps the hydraulic lift will lower the 9EX rocket ship 45 degrees to half-mast.
— Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2019 -
The thing looked like a cross between a shopping cart and a rocket ship, with an arc of safety-orange fabric stretched over the top.
— Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian, 19 Mar. 2018 -
Raul had last been seen wearing a tiger-striped T-shirt and rocket ship pajama pants.
— CBS News, 27 Jan. 2018 -
And Branson said the wing of Virgin’s next rocket ship has been completed.
— Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019 -
The crooner, who takes on the role as an astronaut trapped on Earth, is seen sneaking into the house’s garage late at night to build a rocket ship.
— Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2018 -
That’s rocket ship fast, gives you an 18-mile electric-only range, and returns 59 MPGe.
— Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2018 -
The rocket ship then glides back to the runway at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert.
— Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 16 June 2023 -
Wang compares this to a rocket ship that needs massive fuel tanks to launch into space.
— Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020 -
This Audi is a great stealth rocket ship with plenty of sport and utility.
— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022 -
Her application was one of more than 7,000 competing for a free ride on the rocket ship.
— Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Space dogs in the Soviet program—of which there were dozens—were female, since there was no room in the nose cone of the rocket ships for male dogs to lift their legs up and relieve themselves.
— Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024 -
On his rocket ship to movie stardom, Glen Powell had been keeping a killer Christian Bale impression in his back pocket.
— Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
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