Definition: 1. Any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine. 2. A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion. 3. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender. 4. Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon.
Use 'rocket' in a sentence:
1. Dublin has rocketed up the charts to become one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations for city breaks.
2. The explosive mixture in a rocket consists of both a fuel and a supply of oxygen.
3. Rockets, mortars and artillery rounds rained on buildings.
4. The 4G mission is set to launch from Cape Canaveral in the United States on a space X Falcon 9 rocket in 2019.
5. The band rocketed to stardom with their first single.
6. It is to get the rocket going fast enough to escape Earth's gravity.
7. He gained recognition from rocket scientists worldwide.
8. David, turn off your computer now! People watched the rocket flying up into the sky.
9. Even if ET has mastered building a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, he may be lying dead inside a weakened craft .
10. Two rockets homed in on it from behind without a sound.
11. However, the object does not come from a rocket or missile.
12. The nation has experienced four years of rocketing crime.
13. If we could power such an elevator with solar energy, we could simply rise up into space for a fraction of the cost of a trip by rocket or shuttle.
14. So we are burning up an enormous amount of fuel at every launch just to get the rocket up to what's known as escape velocity.
15. Then he slowed down and began making a rocket.
16. We saw the booster rockets disengage and fall into the sea.
17. The rocket launched two communications satellites.
18. Interviewing politicians may not be rocket science, but it does matter.
19. For example, when a satellite hit an old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more than 2,000 pieces, increasing the amount of space junk.
20. Those rockets landed in the desert.
21. A Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral early this morning.
22. The 4G mission is set to launch from Cape Canaveral in the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2019.
23. The satellite was launched in a rocket.
24. The rocket soared (up) into the air.
25. The idea took off like a rocket.
26. The stone rocketed into the glass, splintering it.
27. The installation of the Falcon hybrid rocket has been decided, using a "simple" clamp at the back end and a quick-release connector at the front.
28. Soldiers using a multiple rocket launcher scored a direct hit on the steeple of a church.
29. The car rocketed out of a side street.
30. The rocket tumbled out of control shortly after lift-off.
31. Clearly, satellites are not just for rocket scientists anymore.
32. First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.
33. Propulsion is provided by a rocket engine, rather than a propeller and rudder, which makes steering difficult.
34. There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
35. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced his regret over the South Korean's launch of rocket.
36. Oxygen could be used to breathe, and hydrogen could be turned into fuel, rocket fuel.
37. The rocket soared skywards.
38. The rocket soared into the air.
39. Unemployment has rocketed up again.
40. The rocket steepened its ascent.
41. The total has rocketed from 376 to 532.
42. A train rocketed by, shaking the walls of the row houses.
43. The rocket was launched in March 1980.
44. Rockets and shells continued to hit the battered port.
45. There has been a renewed rocket attack on the capital.
46. The rocket crashed a few seconds after it left the ground.
47. The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.
48. In spare moments he applied his mind to how rockets could be used to make money.
49. The rocket site is providing precise measurements of lightning voltages and allowing engineers to check how electrical equipment bears up.
50. Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed.
51. For me, fame is like rocket fuel.
52. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a rock record.
