rocketlike
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a word derived from
rocket.
rocketnounany of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
Example Sentences
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But the brilliance of his early years and his dogged determination to succeed sustained him for decades after his rocketlike career was sidetracked.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 24, 2014
Less honored denizens of Mayfair soon found characteristic ways of expressing their ill-concealed envy at the American's rocketlike rise in their rarefied atmosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A.R.A.'s rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some did not like the rocketlike hood and nose air intake that resembles the 1949 Ford.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet those distant fires and rocketlike blasts into the sky had a wavery blur.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton