- a variation of meteor shower.
meteoric shower
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of meteoric shower
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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So science has had to come up with an explanation, and the answer currently favoured is - a meteoric shower.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2013
"The theory is that after the core formed there was a meteoric shower that struck the Earth," says Willbold.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2013
While the precious fallout from this meteoric shower lay scattered on the surface of the moon, on Earth the planet's internal activity had churned it into the mantle too.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2013
The source of the meteoric shower was thus independent of the earth’s rotation, and this shows its position to have been in the regions of space exterior to our atmosphere.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
He raved over it in terms that, if they had been addressed to the morning stars when they sang together, would have made that stellar choir explode in a meteoric shower of flaming self-satisfaction.
From Options by O. Henry
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