How to Use cannonball in a Sentence

cannonball

noun

• Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
• The game is played by teams that must cross the finish line with the fewest throws of a 28-ounce cannonball.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2022
• For the team with the pirate logo, the memo was a cannonball across their bow.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• Avoiding the work, and a goodbye to the river, the kids and one of the guides did cannonballs and cartwheels off the front of a raft.
  — Jim Buchta, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2017
• Avoiding the work — and a goodbye to the river — the kids and one of the guides did cannonballs and cartwheels off the front of a raft.
  — Jim Buchta, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• If O’Neal does that cannonball, the neighbors’ walls are close enough to be splashed.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• The restorers framed the area where the cannonball hit during the 1898 war.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• The sailors aimed cannonballs and links of chain at each other’s sails and rigging.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• Gudin led one of the divisions in the assault and was hit by a cannonball, which smashed his legs.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019
• Mayfield went down as if hit with a cannonball, then got up and screamed at the nearest man in stripes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• In 2019, the group discovered musket balls, leg bones and a six-pound cannonball at the site.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2022
• It’s like jumping time and time again off a dock—a dive here, a cannonball or a can-opener there.
  — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
• The cannonball that killed him is on top of his monument.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• One of the ways to identify a hollow shot from a solid shot, Miller said, is a cap on the cannonball.
  — Scott Barrett, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
• The cannonball appears to be the same type used during the English Civil Wars.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2020
• The Stars will likely be chilling in the shallow end, rather than being the team that does a cannonball and makes a huge free-agent splash.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• At the Battle of the Nile, Napoleon’s naval commander loses both legs to a cannonball.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• One of my favorite rides is a slide that shoots you into a giant pool like a cannonball.
  — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 5 Feb. 2019
• Heier said that type of cannonball would often be packed with lead balls used as shrapnel.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2021
• Keep track of the gazelles, a set of twin cannonballs, and a red chandelier scattered throughout the novel.
  — Robert Allen Papinchak | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Oh, what if after that first step so small, Neil’s giant leap had been a cannonball?
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• Montour, who made a cannonball splash into the playoffs, was a third-round pick.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• All this ended when he was hit in the leg by a cannonball during a battle at Pamplona in 1521.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Or been at the apex of a cannonball into the pool, only to realize their phone was still in their back pocket?
  — David Brandt, ajc, 10 Aug. 2022
• However, a 6-pound French cannonball was found in the orchard, as were British and French musket balls.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2019
• All that was left standing was the brick walls of St. Paul’s Church (1739), where today a British cannonball remains embedded in the church wall.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• Plus, that cannonball with handles is a quite useful tool.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 2 Jan. 2020
• The crispy cannonballs, fried macaroni and cheese balls, were my favorite.
  — John-John Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• However, his beloved horse is struck by a cannonball and dies instantly.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• In one shot, Napoleon is charging the city walls when a cannonball strikes his horse’s chest, sending the animal and its rider somersaulting backward.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024