How to Use rocket in a Sentence

rocket

1 of 2 noun
  • All that for a rocket that can’t launch?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • But as for the world's largest rocket?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Where is the next rocket launch?
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Ready for the next rocket launch?
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And the rocket ride has just left the launch pad.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Gas prices rise like a rocket when crude oil prices go up.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • How tall is the Artemis moon rocket?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Never seen a guy that likes rockets so much.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The gold market shot up like a rocket.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The rocket came down, landed in the ocean, and blew up.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But first the agency has to get its rocket to the launch pad.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • And the picture doesn’t end when rockets leave the ground.
    — New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • When is the Artemis 2 rocket launch date?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The world's largest rocket is about to get even larger.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • There were rockets falling from the sky.
    — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Kennedy not ready for super heavy rockets.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • There is still much work to do to prepare for the rocket’s first launch.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • What time is the SpaceX rocket launch?
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The rockets were never the point.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Plan your visit around a night launch to see rockets streak through the sky.
    — Maggie Downs, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
  • After this test, the rocket will be de-tanked and turned around for launch.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
  • What happened with the rocket launch?
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Once the rocket makes it to the pad, the real fun begins.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe there will be a rocket or a bomb and that waiting is stressful.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Comcast does not launch rockets.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 23 May 2026
  • But as any rocket company knows, what comes up must come down.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 18 June 2026
  • Satellites and rockets are no longer the only things in space.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • When was the 1st New Glenn rocket launch?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The new rocket has a few surprising tricks up its sleeves, though.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Those satellites were not on board the rocket during the test fire.
    — Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 29 May 2026

rocket

2 of 2 verb
  • His role in the movie rocketed him to fame.
  • The train rocketed through the tunnel.
  • Her novel rocketed to the top of the best-seller list.
  • Their album rocketed up the charts.
  • The spacecraft rocketed into outer space.
  • Yeah, this thing's gonna simply rocket off the starting line.
    — New Atlas, 16 Apr. 2026
  • One of them will have to rocket from the bottom tier to the top tier by the end of summer.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Mar. 2023
  • His heart rate rocketed to 150 bpm.
    — Ryan Brennan april 14, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Sean Penn has rocketed to the top of leaderboards.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That is how much Micron shares have rocketed year-over-year.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Then the smiling photo of him, lectern in hand, rocketed around the world.
    — Carter Weinhofer, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Some even got killed rocketing into space before us.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • That was what happened this year, as the red line rocketing skyward in the graph below shows.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Up, down, left and right — mail missives were rocketing toward the center screen.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • But that was before electric cars became a big deal, and the price of lithium started to rocket.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • But rocketing housing prices and a tight market mean that’s simply not in the cards for her at the moment.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Often, there doesn’t seem to be much of a rhyme or reason to the way random movies seem to rocket up the streamer’s list.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2022
  • Buckner is among the state's top sophomores with the potential to rocket up this list over the next year.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And when prices rocket upward — whether for food, gas or other items — consumers can count on a slow, downy descent.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • Gold has rocketed about 17% to start the new year, and silver has jumped about 14%.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Shelby rocketed a two-run double to center field.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • These four celebrities have all demonstrated that a little twist of strange can rocket your look to the next level of cool.
    — Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Its cost-per-use is incredibly low and its value has rocketed.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Karl killed the motors and the lights, letting the air, fizzing into the ballast tanks, rocket us to the surface.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Cryptocurrencies are volatile, sometimes rocketing up in price with one tweet from one volatile man.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The race car can rocket from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat and tops out at 202 mph.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The series, which Brown’s team once seemed to have in hand, was rocketing in the wrong direction.
    — Jay King, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • The two had folded themselves into the back seat of a pedicab and were rocketing uptown.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
  • SpaceX sky-rocketed another 20% in its first full day of trade.
    — Gail Krishnan, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • The Life of a Showgirl album is expected to rocket to the top of the charts.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025

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