Example Sentences

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Though shares traded higher on their first day of trading—and have risen meteorically since—Wall Street scoffed at the attempted modernization.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

When Sherman emerged, meteorically, in the late 1970s, it was with an extended series of black and white photographs she took of herself.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

The play did not land meteorically at BAM, one of off-Broadway’s premier stages.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Her star rose meteorically and—here I admit my own slight resentment—she made it all look almost easy.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2019

Her bearing was that of a barbaric princess, and a princess of meteorically vivid beauty.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville