bolide

Example Sentences

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The meteor - sometimes called a bolide for its particularly intense brightness - could be seen by much of southern Norway.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2022

The next city-threatening bolide could arrive at any time.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2019

Still, with all this evidence, one large piece remained missing: the crater where the bolide impact.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

From Newsweek • Feb. 15, 2013

A bolide had fallen into the Catanian sea—he took me to the port and showed me precisely where.

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing