Sample sentences for METEORITE

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stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface

I felt out of control, a meteorite tumbling through space, tugged by gravity toward certain doom.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

They strike with the force of a meteorite, If people act up out on the Raft, they will make the problem go away.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Then he set out a meteorite, a missile Eetion in power used to hurl— before Akhilleus brought him down and took this fused iron with plunder in his ships.
Homer -- The Iliad
Did not agree to go as meteorite.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
And the business of the meteorite.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
"Stones don't fall from the sky," Conseil said, "or else they deserve to be called meteorites."
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Tom said softly, "You think it's a meteorite, don't you?"
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
In a poem called "Exposure" I wrote then: If I could come on meteorite!
Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
He reached this conclusion after studying a meteorite.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
His idea was that meteorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that a huge volcanic explosion was in progress.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
Meteorites.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Equally mind-boggling were the building's natural treasures—plesiosaur skeletons, a priceless meteorite collection, a giant squid, even a collection of elephant skulls brought back from an African safari by Teddy Roosevelt.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Perhaps, like them, I was a throwback, a small distant meteorite that died several hundred years ago and now lived only by virtue of the light that speeds through space at too great a pace to realize that its source has become a piece of lead ....
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
I've seen him get like this before, when he's writing a new song or is trying to convince me to do something I won't want to do—like go camping with him—and nothing, not a meteorite crashing into the planet, not even a girlfriend in the ICU, can dissuade him.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
Known as the Akedah knife, it had been crafted over three thousand years ago from an iron meteorite that had fallen to earth.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Forged of iron from a meteorite in the desert of Canaan.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Karp, upon breaking open his meteorites, was able to isolate bacteria.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
He wondered what Nagy would say, or Karp, if they knew about the meteorite.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
"Meteorite," Hiro says.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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