- a variation of meteor shower.
meteoric shower
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of meteoric shower
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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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
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
But fire was falling about them like a meteoric shower.
From Barriers Burned Away by Roe, Edward Payson
Every earthquake, pestilence, revolution, violent thunderstorm, comet, meteoric shower, or extraordinary gleaming of the aurora borealis, startles them as a possible avant courier of the crack of doom.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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