Used in a Sentence

cannonball

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cannonball.

Editorial note

The hot, flying cannonball has the most energy and the cool, resting cannonball has the least.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(military, weaponry) A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cannonball gathered in one view.

noun

(military, weaponry) A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

noun

(tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.

noun

(slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cannonball.

noun

(military, weaponry) A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

noun

(tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.

noun

(slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.

verb

(intransitive) To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing.

Example sentences

1

The hot, flying cannonball has the most energy and the cool, resting cannonball has the least.

2

When diving to do a cannonball the first thing many swimmers will do is take a deep breathe.

3

The net result would be something like firing a cannonball (or bullet) at a series of bead curtains.

4

So let's keep cannonball and all those other races on public roads where they belong: in the movies.

5

It is very exciting to think of Google doing a cannonball into that particular swimmming pool.

6

The Cannonball Run occured in the late 70s/early 80s and had a record of no accidents.

7

For photons, unlike the cannonball, there are no additional places to store energy.

8

RED got into the cinema industry the way you or I might cannonball into a pool.

9

By allegory: Suppose a cannonball can be red hot, or cool.

10

From an aesthetic point of view I really like the cannonball.

11

Describing this as a 'cannonball' seems....

12

The web has been alive with commentary the past few weeks since Denise Minger lobbed her first cannonball of a critique across the bow of The China Study, the vessel T.

Quote examples

1

The "debate" has always seemed to me like Quantumist physicists arguing with Classicalists about which method of computing a cannonball trajectory is correct.

2

After several minutes of dry technical commentary, you suddenly get "Now we destroy a castle with a cannonball!" The snowballs colliding is extremely impressive.

3

I think its the best "car chase" movie since "Bullitt" [1] (beating out Cannonball Run, the Bourne trilogies, etc).

Proper noun examples

1

For every moron to break the 'Cannonball' record, there will be a hundred other morons who, in an attempt to break the record, will plow over pedestrians and animals.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cannonball in a sentence?

The hot, flying cannonball has the most energy and the cool, resting cannonball has the least.

What does cannonball mean?

(military, weaponry) A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

What part of speech is cannonball?

cannonball is commonly used as noun, verb.