skyrocketed; skyrocketing; skyrockets
: to shoot up abruptly
prices are skyrocketing
Examples of skyrocket in a Sentence
Verb
His popularity skyrocketed after his latest movie.
the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket
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Verb
The brothers created content together that was primarily comedy-based, garnering millions of views upon upload and skyrocketing the siblings to stardom.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Since the pandemic, the number of tourists to Japan has skyrocketed from 1.37 million to 3.49 million between Dec. 2022 and 2024.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
This market melted down in 2001 as the private merchant generators withheld power, skyrocketing prices amid rolling blackouts and leading to the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
—Tom Philp, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
The number of Russian drone attacks on Ukraine skyrocketed from just 379 in May 2024 to nearly 2,500 in November.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Skyrocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyrocket. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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skyrocket
1 of 2 noun
sky·rock·et
ˈskī-ˌräk-ət 
skyrocket
2 of 2 verb1
: to shoot up suddenly
costs have skyrocketed
2
: to cause to rise or increase rapidly
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