cannonball

Example Sentences

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Their kicks knocked our players back like cannonballs.

From New York Times

If you watch enough television, you may think you have an idea of how gunshot wounds are treated, but what about a cannonball injury?

From Washington Post

On its website, Camp Quinebarge offered campers teasers of what awaited them in the woods of New Hampshire — crackling campfires and cannonballs into the lake.

From New York Times

Battles involve many weapons, and there are falls, explosions, stabbings, strangulations, fires and flames, ice and waves, giant monsters and robots, high-speed crashes, radiation, electric shocks, cannonballs, guns and more.

From Washington Post

“Once I got that contract and everything I kind of dove in cannonball style and wanted to make this year good.”

From Washington Times