How to Use meteorite in a Sentence

meteorite

noun
  • Is your meteorite iron, stony or stony-iron?
    — Heather Barker, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • All meteorites get their names from the zip code they were found in.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Those pieces are known as meteorites.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • So in this case, the object that hit the house would be a meteorite.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
  • One night, while singing in the shower, he is hit on the head by a strange meteorite.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • And the length of the winters would depend on the size of the meteorites.
    — Jane Borden, vanityfair.com, 18 July 2017
  • More than a few meteorites have reached us from the Moon and Mars.
    — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The few that end up scoring a direct hit are called meteorites.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2025
  • This isn’t the only meteorite to launch a scavenger hunt this year.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 July 2018
  • Windisch said the meteorite was a little bigger than his hand.
    — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • One meteorite was found while dragging the corpse of the detector rig back to camp.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 2 May 2020
  • One day, a strange meteorite lands in the fields of the Nahum family.
    — Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The group later shared a picture of a meteorite someone had found.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
  • So, the team began to look into ways to study the Mars meteorite more in-depth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 May 2022
  • If a meteor survives its trip to the ground, it's called a meteorite.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The main attraction is a crater where, millions of years ago, a meteorite touched down.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The leader of a gang must help his group survive when aliens begin to fall from the sky from a meteorite fall.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • The pieces of rock that hit the ground, valuable to collectors, are meteorites.
    — Seth Borenstein, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • There may also be people looking to get their hands on the meteorite that landed in the bay.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • At first, it was thought that the hole may have been caused by a tiny meteorite slamming into the Soyuz.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • So then my father put me on a meteoriteSent me to Earth to rock the mic.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The news of the day was that a small meteorite had fallen on a village in northwest Spain.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Zenith may have been a little late to the meteorite party, but better late than never.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2025
  • More meteorites are found in Antarctica than in any other place in the world.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Any fragments that fall to Earth’s surface are meteorites.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The blazing fireball sent meteorite hunters scrambling to find fragments of the rare space rock.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 9 July 2018
  • Amino acids have, however, been found in comets and meteorites in our solar system.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides, above or below the ocean surface, or by meteorites.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Other pieces of the meteorite have been recovered in the local area.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Those that survive a trip through the atmosphere and hit the Earth's ground are called a meteorite.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024

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