cannonball

Example Sentences

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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

Here they tautologically come, slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

It’s also singular, daring and an uncompromisingly cannonball into the queer cinema pool.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

You curl into a cannonball and pray for salvation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

We’d cannonball into his pool, and he’d drown me in silly jokes, or we’d argue over Star Wars versus Star Trek and end up watching Doctor Who instead.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas