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Examples of ball of fire in a Sentence
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Spicy-dish lawsuit by San Jose doctor against Los Gatos restaurant set for jury trial
Great balls of fire!
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The dragons met violently a thousand feet above the field of battle, as balls of fire burst and blossomed, so bright that men swore later that the sky was full of suns.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2024
Annie Jacobsen So with a 1-megaton bomb on Washington, DC, what happens in the very first millisecond is that this thermonuclear flash expands into a ball of fire that is one mile of pure fire.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
The liquid ignited into a large ball of fire, the video showed.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2024
And for a while last week, they were dropped from a helicopter over the forest outside Payson, raining actual balls of fire.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
Footage on Chinese social media showed a ball of fire spreading to the exterior of the building.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
In some houses, when residents lit their stovetop, a ball of fire came out.
—Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
Ring doorbell video obtained by CNN affiliate WTAE appears to show one of the homes exploding in a ball of fire, shooting up a thick plume of smoke and scattering debris in the area.
—Samantha Beech, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1900, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near ball of fire
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“Ball of fire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball%20of%20fire. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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