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Meanings of shooting star in English

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

        meteoro
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        Examples for "meteor"
        Examples for "meteor"
        1
        I have felt it in the ocean-inthe falling of a meteor.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
        2
        Everything depends, of course, on what one means by the word meteor.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        3
        Perhaps their initial thought is that it is similar to a meteor.
        Wired
        4
        Or a meteor causes the volcanoes to erupt and change the weather.
        The Lost World
        5
        This summer saw a particularly dramatic display from the Perseid meteor shower.
        The Guardian
        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
        Usage of shooting star in English
        1
        Just try not to mix up a shooting star with an airplane.
        The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
        2
        If she squinted, it looked a bit like a slow-motion shooting star.
        Before you know kindness
        3
        And I'm like, a shooting star is basically what they told me.
        Wired
        4
        If you see a shooting star, do you stop and make a wish?
        Wired
        5
        Finally he spotted a shooting star and cried out: Make a wish, Marcus!
        The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
        6
        A shooting star, he thought-andthen realized it was coming directly toward him.
        Hook
        7
        And then, as fast as a shooting star, I was gone.
        Seven Minutes in Heaven
        8
        Wait for a shooting star, holding hands on a porch swing.
        A singular man
        9
        But when she touches it, it blazes like a shooting star.'
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        10
        Have you marked a shooting star, or watched a young gazelle at play?
        The Young Duke
        11
        That day I could have raced neck-and-neck with a shooting star!
        The House of the Misty Star / A Romance of Youth and Hope and Lo...
        12
        Another shooting star streaked overhead, tumbled like a dying cinder, and winked out.
        Gravity
        13
        The stars gleamed and shone and twinkled, only an occasional shooting star traversed them.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        14
        It looked like a meteorite or a shooting star heading straight toward the house.
        The man who ate the 747
        15
        No moonlight means dark skies for great shooting star viewing!
        Wired
        16
        A shooting star streaked across his field of vision, painting with its silver tail.
        Second glance
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