How to Use cue ball in a Sentence

cue ball

noun

• Even better, the Mach 1's shift knob is the same retro white cue ball as the Bullitt.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020
• The pool game ended, the players left, and the cue ball took its place behind the bar.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• The fuel cap has a Bullitt logo and the gear shifter has a cue ball top, just like the car in the movie.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2018
• These are played on a pocketless table with three balls — two cue balls and one object ball.
  — John Torsiello, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Three-cushion billiards revolves around getting the cue ball to strike the two other balls and also hit the side of the table three times.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• In recreation rooms, some boys watched a soccer match on TV; some took part in a tai chi class; others played pool or foosball (in one case with a cue ball).
  — Bob Ortega, CNN, 14 June 2018
• That’s because in billiards, the cue ball is put in motion first, before hitting other balls to put them in motion.
  — Jeff D. Colgan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
• The vehicle will come equipped with a manual transmission and a gear shifter that features a white cue ball shift knob in a nod to the original.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2018
• The all-new Mustang Bullitt is equipped with manual transmission, and the gear shifter features a white cue ball shift knob as a nod to the original.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
• The special-edition model is set to debut this summer and comes with a manual transmission which has a white cue ball shift knob, just like the in the movie.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• Their mother swooped in, her white head glistening in the late afternoon sunshine like a cue ball under bar lights.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 July 2020
• When a sliding cue ball makes contact with an object ball, the two will always separate at an angle of 90 degrees.
  — Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2018
• Sound travels like a cue ball on a pool table, bouncing around, reflecting off all those smooth, hard surfaces, angles, and tall ceilings.
  — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps just like Cara Delevingne who rocked the cue ball look before him, Malik has plans to expand his career to include acting as well, just like his former bandmate Harry.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Hence, any pool player whose cue ball or target ball is behind the eight ball is in the perilous position of having to sink another ball without colliding with or even nicking the eight.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2019
• Powerful cosmic rays splinter the grains’ particles, sending pieces flying in all directions like a cue ball breaking a rack in billiards.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2020
• Here the cue ball would be the changes in temperature, precipitation, sea levels, and storm activity that make up climate change itself.
  — Jeff D. Colgan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024