How to Use cannonball in a Sentence

cannonball

noun
  • For the team with the pirate logo, the memo was a cannonball across their bow.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Heier said that type of cannonball would often be packed with lead balls used as shrapnel.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The sailors aimed cannonballs and links of chain at each other’s sails and rigging.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Just remember — lean back, knees up and make like a cannonball.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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 our museum, cannonballs fall over when there's a launch.
    — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • One of my favorite rides is a slide that shoots you into a giant pool like a cannonball.
    — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 5 Feb. 2019
  • Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Don your floaties and make a giant cannonball splash into a pool.
    — Lorren Au, Orange County Register, 14 June 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
  • 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
  • Montour, who made a cannonball splash into the playoffs, was a third-round pick.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
  • Oh, what if after that first step so small, Neil’s giant leap had been a cannonball?
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
  • If O’Neal does that cannonball, the neighbors’ walls are close enough to be splashed.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
  • Snow White’s bright red poison apple would’ve been cannonball gray.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • That cannonball, which had been shot into a wall, is in a county museum.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
  • To be certain that the body would never rise to the surface, guards attached a heavy cannonball to the sack.
    — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Maybe an adventurous reader will skip the note and just do a cannonball into the book.
    — Diya Chacko, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Take a dip in the home's pristine pool, which is basically begging for a cannonball.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The cannonball, which was found around three feet below the ground outside the Alamo Church, weighs four pounds.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Kids will enjoy the vanilla cake plank, chocolate cannonball and golden caramel popcorn that come with it.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Now do the same experiment again, but replace the cannonball with a pigeon.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Brazil’s cannonball into the Oscars race isn’t an anomaly.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In the show’s title piece, a hand stands upright beside a sphere that might be a ruptured eyeball or a rusted cannonball.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • This group includes the moon jellies, sea nettles, cannonball jellies, and many others.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The restorers framed the area where the cannonball hit during the 1898 war.
    — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021

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