Sentence examples for small cannonball from inspiring English sources

(Now hard and surprisingly heavy, the wad resembles a small cannonball).

She rolled up her sleeve and flexed a muscle the size of a small cannonball.

It's across the small Cannonball river from the Sacred Stone camp founded this spring to catalyze resistance against the DAPL intended to bring dirty crude from the Bakken oil shale in the northwest of North Dakota to Illinois, then down to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico for export.

Before Junior Mance became one of the most ubiquitous piano-room performers in town almost 20 years ago, appearing either alone or with the bassist Marty Rivera, he was the pianist in notable traveling small groups led by Gene Ammons, Lester Young, Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie.

No matter how large the water, the strike always sounds like a fat man doing a cannonball into a small pool.

Wilson's dozens of albums included a celebrated collaboration with Cannonball Adderley, "Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley," a small group setting which understandably could be called jazz; "Broadway — My Way"; "Lush Life"; and "The Nancy Wilson Show!" a best-selling concert recording.

Mom is sleeping blissfully when she's woken up, cannonball-style, by a small child on her bed.

Up came a three-pound stern cannon and cannonball -- both covered in concretions but typical of small British weapons.

He formed classic small groups in the 1950s that featured saxophone legends John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, pianists Red Garland and Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummers "Philly" Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb.

Then, as the years went by, the cannonball waddled down the river's course to where the small boy found it.

William H. Honan's piquant leather-stocking tale last Sunday about finding a cannonball from the Battle of White Plains and how a small boy (himself) learned to hear the river speak speaks eloquently to succeeding generations of small boys and girls who are learning for the first time how curiosity can lead to the unique emotion of astonishment.