Sputniks
CulturalDiscover More
The appearance of Sputnik stimulated a great deal of effort in the education of scientists and engineers in the United States. This period is now referred to as the post-Sputnik boom.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
One show used a helicopter, another a four-engine bomber, and a third shot Sputniks into the flies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Candidates Sir: With Sputniks, Luniks, beatniks, surely the G.O.P. will start plugging their hopeful as Dicknik.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Russia's scientists put their Sputniks into orbit, they undermined at one stroke many of the West's most cherished assumptions about the world balance of power.
From Time Magazine Archive
With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the very thing that had led to such shocks as the launching of the early Sputniks.
From Combat by Mack Reynolds
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
