"cannon ball" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a large, heavy, round projectile shot from a cannon. For example, you might write: "The pirates launched a cannon ball toward the enemy ship."
A recent visitor almost tripped on a cannon ball.
Sam Watkins saw Polk's body and remembered how the cannon ball had torn through his left breast and heart.
He had both of his hands shot entirely off by a cannon ball oh the sight was sickening.
Movies Cannon Ball In the nineteen-eighties, Cannon Films was home to such luminaries as Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Nicolas Roeg, and Jean-Luc Godard.
NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. — Horseback riders, their faces streaked in yellow and black paint, led the procession out of their tepee-dotted camp.
"That barricade poses a danger not just to everyone at the camp, but also to Cannon Ball and other communities that are south".
The tree gets its common English name Cannon Ball Tree from its heavy, brown, spherical fruits resembling cannon balls.
Dickens wrote of "the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy".
"We were indignant and angry, because the firefighters did not raise their ladders," said Vladislav V. Yermikhin, who jumped, cannon-ball style, onto a tarp held open like a net.
California Republicans attending their party's national convention arrived this weekend in Ohio to an African-themed resort, a pig roast and a challenge to a cannon-ball contest.
I intend to take on all comers in the cannon-ball contest," said state Party Chairman Jim Brulte as he welcomed delegates at a Saturday evening reception.
