cannonball
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My line stuttered forward and flopped onto the water with all the stealth of a cannonball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
It’s not a trust fall so much as a trust cannonball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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
His Napoleon watches Marie Antoinette die at the guillotine and fires a cannonball at the Sphinx.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
It intercepted the cannonball midair, detonating a massive fireball.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Human cannonballs are said to be a small and select group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Over the last week, both artists’ camps launched new items like cannonballs.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2024
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
Imagine a million really weighty cannonballs squeezed down to the size of a marble and–well, you’re still not even close.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
