What is "bolides"

Usage examples of "bolides".

He'd also argued effectively, so far, against plastering the continent's mountainous and more remote areas with bolides to eliminate the last of the Resistance.

He could reduce the camps of the vermin to slag, with enough bolides, but that would render much of this continent and other parts of the planet uninhabitable.

The Governor's flotilla had suffered losses fighting the one surviving Ekhat ship, but enough ships had survived for Oppuk to order them to begin outfitting bolides for planetary bombardment.

There is a giant gas planet not far from the asteroid belt where the bolides were being assembled.

The bolides were selected for the purpose in the first place, of course, because of their high ferrous content.

With the vastly greater power available to their huge ships, the Harriers had simply stripped control of the bolides from Oppuk's own flotilla.

John quickly added, "Fortunately our atmosphere protects us from the smaller bolides by making them explode high above us.

These bolides rose hundreds, even thousands of miles, then fell, scattering broad trajectories of smaller debris.

Huge bolides exited in long graceful curves, arcing thousands of miles-entire Earth radü—out in space, and not falling back to the surface, but tracing glowing orbits around the stricken planet.

Sanga saw thousands of those worlds, ravaged and destroyed by-"nuclear fire," "kinetic bolides"-other things.

Sanga saw thousands of those worlds, ravaged and destroyed by—"nuclear fire," "kinetic bolides"—other things.

Sanga saw thousands of those worlds, ravaged and destroyed by—“nuclear fire,” “kinetic bolides”—other things.

Sanga saw thousands of those worlds, ravaged and destroyed by—"nuclear fire," "kinetic bolides"—other things.