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

You curl into a cannonball and pray for salvation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Paula Tupou Bloomfield Tahi: He was a cannonball of comic, kinetic energy.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2022

An arc of flame had just shot over them like a burning cannonball and blasted into the hillside.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin