rocket
Example Sentences
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The debut of Elon Musk’s heavily hyped and much-delayed electric sports car, said to be equipped with “small rocket thrusters,” may be pushed back — again.
From MarketWatch
It is also already making heavy use of its supply of interceptors, which are essential to defending the home front from rockets and missiles.
In Israel, sirens sounded in response to Hezbollah missile and rocket fire, but no casualties were reported.
From BBC
Williamson is calling for "real transparency" in the fuel supply chain, as the prices, in his view, "rocket up and then fall like a feather".
From BBC
Last year the U.S. imposed sanctions on Chinese and Iranian entities that supplied materials used in Iran’s ballistic-missile program, including chemicals required to produce rocket fuel.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
