How to Use meteorite in a Sentence

meteorite

noun
Definition of meteoritenext
  • More than a few meteorites have reached us from the Moon and Mars.
    — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • So in this case, the object that hit the house would be a meteorite.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
  • One night, while singing in the shower, he is hit on the head by a strange meteorite.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • So, the team began to look into ways to study the Mars meteorite more in-depth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • So then my father put me on a meteoriteSent me to Earth to rock the mic.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The news of the day was that a small meteorite had fallen on a village in northwest Spain.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The men in black delivered a meteorite that crashed in 1988 to the stage for Cyclops's mega clue.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • At first, it was thought that the hole may have been caused by a tiny meteorite slamming into the Soyuz.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • This isn’t the only meteorite to launch a scavenger hunt this year.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 July 2018
  • Those that survive a trip through the atmosphere and hit the Earth's ground are called a meteorite.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The museum was able to buy this meteorite from Boudreaux in late 2020.
    — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
  • One meteorite was found while dragging the corpse of the detector rig back to camp.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 2 May 2020
  • In all, chondrites make up 85 percent of the meteorites found on Earth.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The leader of a gang must help his group survive when aliens begin to fall from the sky from a meteorite fall.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • The meteorite broke apart and now sits in pieces at the bottom of the ocean, Now, one group is working to find those pieces and bring them back to the surface.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2018
  • The few that survive the trip through the atmosphere and reach the ground are considered meteorites.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The main attraction is a crater where, millions of years ago, a meteorite touched down.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • What is a meteorite? Meteoroids are small rocks that are still in space.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The group later shared a picture of a meteorite someone had found.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
  • More meteorites are found in Antarctica than in any other place in the world.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The cenotes are a result of a giant, 80-mile-wide meteorite that smashed into the ocean off the northern tip of the peninsula.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • This hints that the meteorite was likely a IAB type and originally had a mass of at least two tons.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Eliot and Tim from Blue Stinger were prepping a Christmas party when the meteorite hit.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And, of course, there were meteorites and countless fossils.
    — Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024
  • When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The blazing fireball sent meteorite hunters scrambling to find fragments of the rare space rock.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 9 July 2018
  • Did the Pharisee Saul witness a meteorite fall on the road to Damascus?
    — Steven Poole, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The grain was extracted from the Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969.
    — Sachiko Amari, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Iridium is rare on Earth but more common in some meteorites.
    — Hans Sues, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024

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