Meteoric Definition

Meteoric Sentence Examples

• This ended Decazes's meteoric career of greatness.

• Halley's comet conforms very well, however, with a meteoric shower directed from Aquarius early in May.

• The meteoric occurrence has even suggested the fanciful notion that all diamonds were originally derived from meteorites.

• But the new system was unsuited to the Mahratta genius; it hampered the meteoric movements of the cavalry, which was obliged to manoeuvre in combination with the new artillery and the disciplined battalions.

• This iron is considered by several of the first authorities"on the subject to be of meteoric origin,' but no evidence hitherto given seems to prove decisively that it cannot be telluric. That the nodules found were lying on gneissic rock, with no basaltic rocks in the neighbourhood, does not prove that the iron may not originate from basalt, for the nodules may have been transported by the glaciers, like other erratic blocks, and will stand erosion much longer than the basalt, which may long ago have disappeared.