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

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

Valencia says on his website he has more than two decades of experience as a human cannonball.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

His Napoleon watches Marie Antoinette die at the guillotine and fires a cannonball at the Sphinx.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

What happens is that deep in the Earth there is an explosion that fires, in effect, a cannonball of magma to the surface at supersonic speeds.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson