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rockets

noun as in firecracker

noun as in fireworks

noun as in pyrotechnics

Strong match

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Typically, aircraft will work in pairs where the flight lead will make an initial pass to mark a target with rockets.

He rockets across the screen, dodging boulders as he goes, and begins to shoot again.

An airplane had flown so close that he could see its machine guns and rockets.

That morning, Israeli Air Force launched Operation Pillar of Defense in response to hundreds of incoming rockets from Gaza.

“The main hospital was destroyed ten days ago by rockets,” says Abdi.

The heavy round shot injured some of the houses but the shells did not reach the town and the rockets passed over it.

He got no reply, but the vessel fired three more white rockets; these rockets were also seen by Mr. Stone.

The latter states that he went to the voice pipe at about 1.15, but was told then of a white rocket (not five white rockets).

At 2.40 Mr. Stone called to the master that the ship from which he had seen the rockets had disappeared.

At 4.30 he called the master and informed him that Mr. Stone had told him he had seen rockets in the middle watch.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rockets, such as: bursts, illuminations, pyrotechnics, sparklers, bottle rockets, and cherry bomb.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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