cannonball
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“We need to have the basic things,” said Biniam Girmay, a high-speed cannonball from Eritrea who in 2024 won three sprint stages at the Tour de France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Of all the dirty, rotten, down-low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck might be the worst so far.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
The British wanted to seize the ship and its treasure, but fired a cannonball into the San José’s powder magazines by mistake.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
It’s also singular, daring and an uncompromisingly cannonball into the queer cinema pool.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
There was a cannonball stove with a steaming coffeepot on top.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Human cannonballs are said to be a small and select group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
A crew digging a hole for an electrical conduit in Waltham, Massachusetts, Monday unearthed 13 cannonballs.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
For years, it was unclear why, but a new study suggests jet expulsions of hot matter burped out like cosmic cannonballs are behind it.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2023
The images centered on the 1797 warship USS Constitution, better known as Old Ironsides because, while it sank a British vessel during the War of 1812, its thick, oak hull survived a barrage of cannonballs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
After they positioned the pontoon boat at the edge of the water, the workmen attached the iron tracks with the cannonballs in them.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
