Sentence examples for In cannonball from inspiring English sources

I played drums in a band called Fenderbaum, named after Sammy Davis Jr's character in Cannonball Run II.

He became noted during his years (1961 70) playing in Cannonball Adderley's bluesy hard-bop Quintet, and he composed Adderley's biggest hit, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (1967).

"Listen, I remember when I was up for one of the jumpsuit babes in 'Cannonball 2,' " she tells one of the other waiters.

In seconds I was 165 feet down the mountain and (following instructions we had received at ground school at the start of the tour) tucking my feet in cannonball position for landing.

After Duke earned (1967) a B.A. in trombone and music composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he played piano in Cannonball Adderley's jazz combo as well as organ and the recently invented synthesizer in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention rock group (1969 71, 1973 76).

Today, there's no ambulance with a fake patient in the back, chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce limo or madman in a huge dually pickup truck bashing through fences on the side of the freeway, all of which actually happened in Cannonball races.

In "Cannonballs" he creates a carpetlike, walk-on painting by weaving together scrolls.

She also appeared as Burt Reynolds' love interest in The Cannonball Run in 1981.

Several novelty credits have been produced down the years, with cars driving through the "O" in The Cannonball Run (1981), the searchlights going out in Die Hard 4.0 and Ralph Wiggum singing along with the fanfare in The Simpsons Movie (both 2007).

The old debate raised by participants in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in the 1970s is back: Can a good driver drive fast without endangering other motorists?

Indeed, the Portofino is featured in "The Cannonball Run".