How to Use bottle rocket in a Sentence

bottle rocket

noun
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  • Every year bottle rockets are the source of house fires.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2018
  • One year, while walking my dog mid-day, some boys drove by and shot a bottle rocket at the two of us.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
  • The Fourth used to mean cold beer, grilled corn and coaxing the dog out from under the bed after a loud burst of bottle rockets.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Instead, Leon and Rich Strike flashed past them like a bottle rocket.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • Fireworks are banned statewide, but the city also bans sparklers, bottle rockets and more.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • While walking around the block midday on the Fourth of July, a car passed us, and a young man leaned out the window and shot a bottle rocket at us.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 22 June 2018
  • This year, bottle rockets and sky rockets are legal in New Hampshire for the first time since 1992.
    — J.d. Capelouto and Marek Mazurek, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
  • With all four of its tires receiving torque and launch-control programming onboard, the SF90 Stradale is said to shoot off the line like a bottle rocket.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 29 May 2019
  • Many of us have bought bottle rockets to make our own fireworks show, preparing to annoy our neighbors with each flick of our lighters.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • Kim Jong Un is strapping nuclear warheads on the backs of bottle rockets.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Thousands of people gathered to dance and dodge amid the bulls as roman candles and bottle rockets showered them with sparks, and spinners nipped at their legs.
    — Fernanda Pesce and Alexis Triboulard, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That said, things like firecrackers, bottle rockets and roman candles aren't allowed to be set off in Arizona no matter the time of year.
    — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 27 June 2019
  • The deputy said the bottle rocket landed underneath his vehicle, the report said.
    — Web Staff, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
  • In 2015, the state legalized the use and sale of fireworks such as firecrackers, Roman candles, bottle rockets and mortars.
    — Staff Reports, ajc, 25 June 2019
  • In 2016, the state legalized the use and sale of fireworks such as firecrackers, Roman candles, bottle rockets and mortars.
    — Staff Reports, ajc, 21 June 2018
  • But with last year’s legislation, Iowa joined most of the rest of the country in loosening its rules to allow the sale of bottle rockets, firecrackers and roman candles.
    — Scott Stewart, The Seattle Times, 10 June 2018
  • Since him, there has been a long line of Southerners who light bottle rockets with a Camel Non-filter and shoot for the moon, only to see the projectiles blaze ankle-high through the Johnsongrass, scorching cats and burning worms.
    — Southern Living, 2 July 2014
  • Build bottle rockets, a gumdrop dome, balloon cars, fluffy slime, chocolate asphalt, marker robots and more.
    — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The noon start created a somewhat-timid environment at puck drop, but Roope Hintz changed that with a bottle rocket wrist shot with under two minutes left in the first period.
    — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • In Alabama, fireworks such as bottle rockets, fire crackers, sparklers, roman candles, smoke bombs, and wheels and spinners are allowed.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 July 2023
  • In Alabama, fireworks such as bottle rockets, fire crackers, sparklers, roman candles, smoke bombs, and wheels and spinners are allowed.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 2 July 2019
  • Roman candles and bottle rockets are prohibited at Michigan state parks at all times.
    — Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Flowers is a bottle rocket who excelled in tough circumstances at Boston College.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Illinois allows sparklers and other small fireworks but is one of only four states that bans bottle rockets, firecrackers, roman candles and other items.
    — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 11 July 2018
  • The devastation was grave enough (although there were no deaths), and the outrage was fierce enough, that the moratorium on firecrackers, bottle rockets, and Roman candles remained the status quo in Iowa for more than 80 years.
    — Luke Winkie, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • Shooting bottle rockets at each other was among the rambunctious brothers’ favorite pastimes, so that day’s activity was not out of the ordinary.
    — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Hamler is a bottle rocket whose stock could be hurt by drop problems in college, and Jefferson, the son of former Lions receivers coach Shawn Jefferson, is recovering from foot surgery.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Participants brought an empty 2-litter bottle to build their bottle rocket with tips and design help from Boeing engineers.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 14 May 2018
  • Visit the Science Park to connect with science using the park’s ball range, water bottle rockets, giant levers, kaleidoscopes, pulleys, solar tree, sound station, tennis ball launcher and wheel roll.
    — Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 22 Mar. 2018
  • While regulations exist on the books, many continue making powerful firecrackers and bottle rockets and selling them to the public.
    — Time, 6 July 2018

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