How to Use fireball in a Sentence

fireball

noun
  • The house erupted into a fireball.
  • Then, a fireball and a huge plume of smoke.
    — September 19, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There was no fireball this time until the very end.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Weaver looked to his left and saw a fireball coming at him.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There are fireballs of zombies on the loose.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Who wouldn’t want to bring a fireball or two into such a place?
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Then that fireball gets doused by a wave of ice-cold lime and orange.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Your naked eye should spot any lights, shooting stars and fireballs.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Video from the crash shows a large fireball and smoke plume erupting from the crash site.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This led to a hot gas leak, which led to an explosive fireball.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2021
  • Many fireballs lasted a long time and were seen across wide areas.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Video from the scene shows a massive fireball erupting from the park.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The fireball pulsed upwards from the force of its own shockwave.
    — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
  • These little fireballs waste no time coming in to eat.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • As the two ships ground against each other, sparks lit a massive fireball.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • The goal of shooting a fireball is to take that ball of fire and increase its speed.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • The grinding metal sparked, and a fireball flashed over the tankers.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The comet will look like a bright fireball in the dark sky with a long, extended tail.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Then there was a huge fireball and glass crashed down, popping out of the building from the heat.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Five of the six on board the latter aircraft died as a fireball engulfed it.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The skies over Texas have never seen a fireball quite like this before.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The fireball had perhaps a brightness between the full moon and the sun.
    — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
  • David Beach captured a video of the fireball heading due south.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2021
  • With a crude device, the powder simply burns and adds to the fireball.
    — David Hambling, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2008
  • Much of the structure collapsed after a large fireball shot out the house.
    — Liam Quinn, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Some ran in panic as a massive fireball turned the sky orange and gave off oven-like heat.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • These fireballs come from asteroids, not comets.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Then, video of the fireball rippled around the world almost as quickly.
    — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Hot fireballs burst around the catwalk so close the audience could feel the warmth.
    — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025

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