How to Use rocket ship in a Sentence

rocket ship

noun
  • Shares have been a rocket ship since then.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The rocket ship is your body and your hands are the space shuttle.
    — Dave Melton, Post-Tribune, 23 June 2018
  • Its revenues are a rocket ship.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That stock has been a rocket ship year to date, nearly doubling.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But then don’t be too attached to getting there by bus or rocket ship.
    — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The rocket ship that got him through high school was just rainbows and pixie dust.
    — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • So step into this rocket ship -- and let your mind take off and explore freely.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Riders will be placed in rocket ships being pulled — and swirled around — by aliens in space ships.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The rocket ship had lifted off and crypto mania was in full force.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 June 2022
  • Is that rocket ship at the far right blasting off toward Mars?
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
  • The rocket ship, so to speak, is probably due for a crash-landing.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
  • The words Wicked Bold were on some clouds and a rocket ship was breaking through.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • Wang compares this to a rocket ship that needs massive fuel tanks to launch into space.
    — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
  • A way to go up to space without flying a rocket ship would be useful, but getting there is tricky.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But the tech too finicky and expensive, and the customers felt like they were being asked to buy a rocket ship.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • This Audi is a great stealth rocket ship with plenty of sport and utility.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
  • While not every pilot will pan out, one of them may turn out to be the rocket ship that takes us to new levels of success.
    — Alexandre Douzet, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That’s like trading in your bicycle for a car and then, shortly after, a rocket ship.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • So loud, the sound of dozens of four-wheel rocket ships was drowned out by cheers for Danica Patrick.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
  • Crypto’s rocket ship to the moon crash-landed back on Earth in the second quarter.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 30 June 2022
  • Lacy’s funk love odyssey was a rocket ship to the moon; deeply and profoundly satisfying.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Look at Dusty May’s two-year rocket ship of success at Michigan.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • All, except the rocket ship sculpture, have since been completed.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Real estate became less and less of a focus because crypto was a rocket ship for the bank.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Owner Hank Gelhaus was most set on restoring the rides, such as the rocket ship rides above.
    — Nicole Bonaccorso, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In renderings of the project, the rocket ship appeared to be blasting off with bronze flames and thick smoke at the bottom.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Some regular investors made money by jumping on that rocket ship.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • The thing looked like a cross between a shopping cart and a rocket ship, with an arc of safety-orange fabric stretched over the top.
    — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The economy’s going to -- potentially could take off like a rocket ship in the next nine months.
    — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2021
  • And Branson said the wing of Virgin’s next rocket ship has been completed.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019

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