How to Use cue ball in a Sentence

cue ball

noun
  • Lookin like a cue ball and took that beautiful mullet away from us.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The pool game ended, the players left, and the cue ball took its place behind the bar.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • These are played on a pocketless table with three balls — two cue balls and one object ball.
    — John Torsiello, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Without sweat to help his grip, Scherzer said the baseball felt like a cue ball in his hand.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The fuel cap has a Bullitt logo and the gear shifter has a cue ball top, just like the car in the movie.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Even better, the Mach 1's shift knob is the same retro white cue ball as the Bullitt.
    — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020
  • Its gated shifter, topped with a solid metal cue ball right out of a high school machine shop, feels perfect.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Essentially, the idea is to shoot the cue ball into the object ball and make the cue ball replace where the object was.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
  • Their mother swooped in, her white head glistening in the late afternoon sunshine like a cue ball under bar lights.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 July 2020
  • That’s because in billiards, the cue ball is put in motion first, before hitting other balls to put them in motion.
    — Jeff D. Colgan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
    — John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Three-cushion billiards revolves around getting the cue ball to strike the two other balls and also hit the side of the table three times.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Sound travels like a cue ball on a pool table, bouncing around, reflecting off all those smooth, hard surfaces, angles, and tall ceilings.
    — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The vehicle will come equipped with a manual transmission and a gear shifter that features a white cue ball shift knob in a nod to the original.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Going back to the billiard ball analogy, imagine replacing the billiard balls with bowling balls and the cue ball with a ping-pong ball.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • When a sliding cue ball makes contact with an object ball, the two will always separate at an angle of 90 degrees.
    — Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2018
  • After his matches, Gorst signed cue balls and other memorabilia and took selfies with fans.
    — Jeremy Herb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The special-edition model is set to debut this summer and comes with a manual transmission which has a white cue ball shift knob, just like the in the movie.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The setup Leaving the white cue ball to the side, organize the other 15 balls with the triangle rack.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In recreation rooms, some boys watched a soccer match on TV; some took part in a tai chi class; others played pool or foosball (in one case with a cue ball).
    — Bob Ortega, CNN, 14 June 2018
  • Powerful cosmic rays splinter the grains’ particles, sending pieces flying in all directions like a cue ball breaking a rack in billiards.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The all-new Mustang Bullitt is equipped with manual transmission, and the gear shifter features a white cue ball shift knob as a nod to the original.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Here the cue ball would be the changes in temperature, precipitation, sea levels, and storm activity that make up climate change itself.
    — Jeff D. Colgan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Similar to pool, snooker is played by striking the cue ball to pot other balls in a correct sequence, according to the BBC.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Hence, any pool player whose cue ball or target ball is behind the eight ball is in the perilous position of having to sink another ball without colliding with or even nicking the eight.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2019
  • Inside the car’s purposeful cockpit is a manual stick shift, topped with a traditional black cue ball on a chrome shaft, diligently clunked through a heavy slotted five-speed gate with Reverse located at the top left.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Perhaps just like Cara Delevingne who rocked the cue ball look before him, Malik has plans to expand his career to include acting as well, just like his former bandmate Harry.
    — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2017

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