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Meanings of falling star in English
A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere.
Synonyms
Examples for "meteor"
Examples for "meteor"
1
I have felt it in the ocean-inthe falling of a meteor.
2
Everything depends, of course, on what one means by the word meteor.
3
Perhaps their initial thought is that it is similar to a meteor.
4
Or a meteor causes the volcanoes to erupt and change the weather.
5
This summer saw a particularly dramatic display from the Perseid meteor shower.
1
Just try not to mix up a shooting star with an airplane.
2
If she squinted, it looked a bit like a slow-motion shooting star.
3
And I'm like, a shooting star is basically what they told me.
4
If you see a shooting star, do you stop and make a wish?
5
Finally he spotted a shooting star and cried out: Make a wish, Marcus!
Usage of falling star in English
1
The match, still burning, curved like a falling star through the window.
2
She vanished like a falling star.-Thatis M. de Rastignac with Mme.
3
There would never be a falling star, but your heart would sink.
4
Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star.
5
Then he thought it was a falling star; only it did not fall.
6
The light of his motor flashed down the hills like a falling star.
7
Even as I looked something resembling a falling star curved across the sky.
8
I noticed that the smooth skin bore a small tattoo: a falling star.
9
A falling star shot across the constellation of Cassiopeia, like a flaming arrow.
10
But there wasn't any falling star that afternoon and there ain't one tonight.
11
To see a shooting or falling star, denotes sadness and grief.
12
We can be there in the flash of a falling star.
13
Far above them, a falling star streaked across the sky, bright, and then gone.
14
Now and then a first-rate dandy shot in among us, like a falling star.
15
A ' falling star' that lands near London turns out to be a cylindrical spaceship.
16
Looking around, trying to see who had cried out, she saw a falling star.
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Falling star through the time
Falling star across language varieties
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