Sentence examples for cannonball of from inspiring English sources

But day to day, the cannonball of anxiety in my stomach is for the most part absent.

The ball arrived on Kroos's left boot and it was a cannonball of a shot for the third goal.

(The collection also contained a great many other bits and bobs, including the author's hip bone and "a cannonball" of KitKat wrappers that he'd collected).

This response has no bearing on what the lieutenant is saying, but you just can't stop this Dixie Cannonball of Southern sass.

Perhaps it's the suet, the fear of chomping on a sixpence, or the prospect of forcing a cannonball of stodge into an already bloated stomach.

Describing Goya's life-size self-portrait of 1815, he writes of the "cannonball of flesh and bone, lightly filmed… with the sweat of concentration".

You don't do a cannonball off of the high dive to start a relationship.

Or fire a cannonball out of a cannon at your bridesmaids!

Buses roared past, their burning flanks throwing cannonballs of heat at the sidewalk.

The footage was a reconstruction of the famous (and probably apocryphal) experiment performed by Galileo, in which he dropped cannonballs of different sizes from the Tower of Pisa.

The largest cannon weighed four tons and could fire cannonballs of 42 pounds, making it the most powerful gun then used in naval warfare.