How to Use falling star in a Sentence

falling star

noun
  • And a falling star for good luck.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Because the only thing everyone likes more than a rising star is a falling star, right?
    — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The falling stars nod to the asteroid impact and extinction that struck not long after the bird lived.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Since the skies are dark, the nights before and after April 22 should be almost as good for catching a falling star or two.
    — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The Blue Arrow was an All-Star in November and a falling star in April.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • Get intergalactic with these bold pants, printed with cosmic graphics inspired by the scene when Howl catches a falling star and places it in his heart.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Mercury is fresh out of retrograde, and 2020 is finally nearing the end, so this is the perfect time to get outside and make a wish on a falling star.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Parker accompied the tweet with emojis of a black heart, a dove and what appeared to be a falling star, along with the hashtag #MambaForever.
    — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The Avs became a group of falling stars, going splat and getting swept by the Golden Knights in an unspeakably awful series.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • Recalling their previous conversation, Dunk suggests a falling star as well.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Meteors – also called fireballs, falling stars or shooting stars – are common occurrences in the Earth's atmosphere.
    — Gianna Montesano, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Stargazers can witness falling stars blazing across the night sky this weekend as part of the Perseid meteor shower that hits its peak on Saturday and Sunday night.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Occasionally, that shower has produced a thousand falling stars per minute, though on average watchers usually only see 10 to 15 streaks per hour.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Trailer - The Blob (1958) Watch on When what appears to be a falling star turns out to be a gelatinous and malicious blob that absorbs human bodies, a group of teenagers must warn their small town.
    — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This shower in normal years features a magnificent 120 meteors each peak hour, but the remnants of the New Year’s Day supermoon leave us with a bright, waning gibbous moon a few days later to obscure all but a few falling stars.
    — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • The fossil’s fortuitous position in its lineage, as well as the asteroid impact that followed closely on its heels, inspired the team to give it the name Asteriornis, a nod to Asteria, the Greek goddess of falling stars who transformed into a quail.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020

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