rocket fuel

Example Sentences

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A successful launch could give the market some much-needed rocket fuel.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

As a result, the housing market won’t provide the kind of rocket fuel for Canada’s economy like it did earlier this decade, which helped the country recover relatively quickly from the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

If I survive this, I'll tell people I was pissing rocket fuel.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir