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

The British wanted to seize the ship and its treasure, but fired a cannonball into the San José’s powder magazines by mistake.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 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

Taryn loved Gigi too, and during the summer, the four of them would go to the rec center pool and lie in the sun and cannonball into the water.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake