Sentences with cannonball
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- The cannonball could be called the S. U. V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired. The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p. 40I would call it a water-entry stunt, not a dive. The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p. 40, quoting "Coach O'Brien"
- Determine the curve described by cannonballs and bombs, taking into consideration the resistance of the air; give rules for obtaining the ranges corresponding to different initial velocities and to different angles of projection.
- He's gonna try a cannonball off the high dive and wash all the water from the pool.
- Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
- He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
- After several more jerky movements, he shot him self like a cannonball at Stone, sending him flying almost into a wall.
- After an opening sequence that uses up all of Garfield's four jokes - his love of lasagna, the remote control, cannonball jumps and tormenting the dog and cat next door - the plot creaks into gear.
- A cannonball dive.
- A train known as a cannonball express.
- Also uncovered were musket balls, cannonballs, a grenade and tools.
- I jumped as if to do a cannonball, but then turned into a dive while I was falling.
- Unhappily, one barrel inevitably discharged before the other causing the cannonballs either to describe an irregular and unpredictable trajectory or, worse, to whip around in a potentially fatal fashion.
- Mortars, as seen in the top right and bottom left hand pictures, were used to fire cannonballs over walls into a courtyard to kill soldiers and cause general damage.
- He flew from the top of the diving board, landing in a cannonball, splashing water over the edges of the pool walls.
- A small difference in the angle of a cannon will make the cannonball land in a slightly different place.
- If a cannon is fired from atop a high hill, the cannonball will fall to Earth, landing some distance away.
- Suddenly, Tyler did a cannonball into the water.
- But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise longue or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
- In the heyday of the Hapsburgs, Viennese noblemen, for want of other diversion, amused themselves by firing cannonballs into the annual armadas of migrating beluga sturgeon that swam up the Danube to spawn.
- She ran down the hill, off the deck, and did a cannonball into the water.
- The chief of the boat, Francis Sharkey had expressed concerns about the compartments near the reactor room, after the boat had taken several hits from the old fashioned cannonballs fired at them from the square rigger.
- Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
- The Crimean War yielded inkwells made from Russian cannonballs, and the mainly naval Spanish-American war of 1898 produced souvenirs made from submarine cable cut while under fire, and artillery shells made into cigar cutters.
- The selection includes bombs from both World Wars, cannonballs, and a massive bronze shell which will hopefully be suspended from the ceiling according to curator Marilyn Bullivant.
- Found on board were Portuguese pottery, oak barrels, textiles including the hem of a medieval robe, a stone cannonball and parts of original rigging and sails.
- Yukirin quickly leaped into the water, doing a cannonball and splashing Fiona.
- Dozens of rounds of ammo, bombs and even cannonballs are fired at the trio, yet don't produce one scratch.
- They eat Burger King, have freestyle rap battles, listen to heavy metal, e-mail their families, play golf and do cannonballs off the diving board in the palace swimming pool.
- We had been told that cannonballs were scattered liberally over this small bay, but seeing them in situ was something else.
- A nearby black hole, hurtling like a cannonball through the plane of our Milky Way, has provided possibly the best evidence yet that stellar-mass black holes are made in supernova explosions.