Sentence examples for has blasted off from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, Star Wars has blasted off in spectacular fashion and the Marvel Comics universe has almost milked the blockbuster franchise dry.

Meanwhile, just to keep us in the narrative-saga loop, a throwaway scene reveals that a certain manned space-rocket has blasted off to Mars.

Lights in the shops along the lane expire instantly, then a mob charges past, accompanied by sharp screams and a sizzling, dancing power cable that has blasted off a faulty transformer overhead.

By insisting on the debate stage last Saturday that George W Bush did not "keep us safe", as his brother Jeb likes to say, given that 9/11 happened on W's watch and that he "lied" about weapons of mass destruction, Trump has blasted off whatever veneer remains of his loyalty to Republican party orthodoxy.

Europe's ATV space truck has blasted off from the Kourou base in French Guiana.

A torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics has blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board a Soyuz rocket.

It was an elevator operator, zooming us to our nine-teenth floor headquarters, who told us of that Russian who was rumored to have blasted off in a Soviet rocket.

By Daniel Lang The New Yorker, January 18 , 1958P. 22 It was an elevator operator, zooming us to our nine-teenth floor headquarters, who told us of that Russian who was rumored to have blasted off in a Soviet rocket.

The New Yorker, January 18 , 1958P. 22 It was an elevator operator, zooming us to our nine-teenth floor headquarters, who told us of that Russian who was rumored to have blasted off in a Soviet rocket.

But in the case of the Earth-Moon system and the Pluto-Charon system – the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto – an early collision with a larger body is hypothesized to have blasted off material that later coalesced into a moon.

But suppose that, on July 16 , 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins had blasted off for a round-trip journey to a distant star aboard a ship that could continuously accelerate and decelerate at a constant rate of some large fraction of 1G.