16 examples of skyrocket in sentences

and gave Cartwright's favorite yell as a solo, while Marty and Joe grinned approval and some students passing in the street answered it with the "skyrocket.

Stocks advanced, fluctuated, and suddenly whizzed upward like skyrockets; and the long-expected wave of prosperity inundated the country.

Many men will hurry a mile to see skyrockets, who never notice Orion and the Pleiades from their own doorstep.

As we left the British field hospital, on the Rue de Leopold, a shrieking skyrocket whizzed by above us and buried its hissing head in the river to the north.

An interval of perhaps a second's silence, then a faint moaning, a crescendo wail, the whirr and rush of a snarling, shrieking skyrocket overhead, and a crash, like all the thunders of the universe rolled into one, when the shell struck, followed by the roar of falling brick as a neighboring house came pouring into the street.

"Oh, shoot off firecrackers and torpedoes, and make lots of noise, and at night we'll send up Roman candles and skyrockets; and

Then at night Buddy and the boys sent up skyrockets and Roman candles (which were sticks covered with lightning bugs), and prettier ones you never saw.

"I've seen too many plays that were skyrockets on the road come down like sticks when they struck New York.

The skyrocket, a new novel.

Skyrocket romance.

© 3May35; B260425. Florence Talpey Williams (W); 11Sep62; R300913. Skyrocket.

The skyrocket, a new novel.

Skyrocket romance.

© 3May35; B260425. Florence Talpey Williams (W); 11Sep62; R300913. Skyrocket.

Lord Faversham's famous "Skyrocket" ended his days with much eclat.

Others than Ike Bloomstein remarked upon the fact that Bob Brownley had hung close to the Sugar-pole all day, but when the close had come and gone without his having anything to do with the Sugar skyrockets, he dropped out of his fellow-brokers' minds.

16 examples of  skyrocket  in sentences