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Meanings of falling star in English

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A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere.

        Usage of falling star in English
        1
        The match, still burning, curved like a falling star through the window.
        The Voice in the Fog
        2
        She vanished like a falling star.-Thatis M. de Rastignac with Mme.
        A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
        3
        There would never be a falling star, but your heart would sink.
        The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
        4
        Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star.
        The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
        5
        Then he thought it was a falling star; only it did not fall.
        The Ball and the Cross
        6
        The light of his motor flashed down the hills like a falling star.
        The Trumpeter Swan
        7
        Even as I looked something resembling a falling star curved across the sky.
        Fighting in Flanders
        8
        I noticed that the smooth skin bore a small tattoo: a falling star.
        Demon: a memoir
        9
        A falling star shot across the constellation of Cassiopeia, like a flaming arrow.
        Doctor Pascal
        10
        But there wasn't any falling star that afternoon and there ain't one tonight.
        Burning bright
        11
        To see a shooting or falling star, denotes sadness and grief.
        Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
        12
        We can be there in the flash of a falling star.
        Doom of the Dragon
        13
        Far above them, a falling star streaked across the sky, bright, and then gone.
        Cibola Burn
        14
        Now and then a first-rate dandy shot in among us, like a falling star.
        Domestic Manners of the Americans
        15
        A ' falling star' that lands near London turns out to be a cylindrical spaceship.
        What does a martian look like?
        16
        Looking around, trying to see who had cried out, she saw a falling star.
        Night gate
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        Falling star through the time
        Falling star across language varieties
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