rockets
- present tense form of rocket (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Waiving such environmental protection requirements would allow approvals to be expedited "to launch rockets, reenter spacecraft, and operate launch and reentry sites," the FAA said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Commercial rockets will carry the two lander prototypes into space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Thunder is an autonomous attack aircraft that can carry missiles or rockets, patrol airspace and carry cargo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Much of it is well within the range of even the most rudimentary Iranian rockets and drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
