Sentence examples for lit ball from inspiring English sources

For 1908, Ochs replaced the display with what he thought would be a more spectacular eventthe lowering of a lit ball down the building's flagpole at midnight, patterned off the use of time balls to indicate a certain time of day (the "ball drop" is still held on One Times Square to this day, attracting an average of one million spectators yearly).

The first video opens on a familiar Canadian election premise Crosbie has been kidnapped by her election opponents and is being held, sealskin coat and all, in a dimly lit "ball pit".

It is all for one purpose: to gaze up at a well-lit ball as it slowly descends during the last minute of the year.

Mars said that the lights and air conditioning system were turned off when the video was recorded, which leads him to conclude the lit orb isn't a glare or dust ball.

They sat in a waiting area where a wall of flat-screen TVs played images from Vice-produced events: people dancing with L.E.D.-lit beach balls at the Coachella music festival, Snoop Dogg exhaling smoke from a blunt, Smith cavorting with African warlords.

Other protesters chanted obscenities about the police and also allegedly threw lit fireworks, paint balls and balloons filled with urine.

In the center of the vast lobby there's an enormous table full of vases and votive candles, and in each corner an oversize, squid-ink-black V-shaped velvet settee lit by a large ball lamp.

Brooklyn Bowl stays relatively busy around the clock, with sweaty locals semi-ironically competing for strikes among the 16 "green-certified" lanes by daylight, and all-too-earnestly competing for hook ups on the disco-ball-lit dance floor come nightfall.

And let the rest of the world catch up!" Norris, 70, shouted with jubilant zeal to the hundreds packing the disco ball-lit hall.

Like the best indie-dance remixes, this one drags you onto the glitter ball-lit dance floor without disgracing the shadowy rock roots of the original.

Above is an observation deck with panoramic views of the city, and a petite ice-skating rink lit by a heart-shaped mirror ball.