How to Use fireball in a Sentence

fireball

noun

• The house erupted into a fireball.
• Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
• The fireball was a rare treat during a dearth of sky shows.
  — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• The photo shows a beam of light stretching from the sky to the ground and a glowing fireball on the ground.
  — Kelli Weir, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2023
• Video from the scene shows a massive fireball erupting from the park.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2024
• The grinding metal sparked, and a fireball flashed over the tankers.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• The fireball lit up the night sky like an early sunrise.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Australia time, the team will look for a fireball to streak across the Australian sky.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Dec. 2020
• The comet will look like a bright fireball in the dark sky with a long, extended tail.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Then there was a huge fireball and glass crashed down, popping out of the building from the heat.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• Back in 2014, a fireball exploded in the skies over Papua New Guinea.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Apr. 2022
• Five of the six on board the latter aircraft died as a fireball engulfed it.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Much of the structure collapsed after a large fireball shot out the house.
  — Liam Quinn, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• In what’s known as the City of Lights, people even in Paris shared video of the fireball careening across the night sky.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2023
• This video of the fireball is from April Bishop in Hayden.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2020
• The skies over Texas have never seen a fireball quite like this before.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• David Beach captured a video of the fireball heading due south.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2021
• The fireballs can be seen once Earth runs into a dense stream of debris from the Comet Halley.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• In 1066, a likeness of the fireball was stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2022
• The 100-foot fireball that shot into the sky was visible for miles.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• As the two ships ground against each other, sparks lit a massive fireball.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
• Many Floridians watched the space crew's return, which looked like a fireball in the sky.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2023
• Custer's front end briefly burst into a fireball on lap 25.
  — Jim Vertuno, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• This led to a hot gas leak, which led to an explosive fireball.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2021
• At its peak, the fireball was more than 10 times brighter than a full moon, officials said.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 3 May 2022
• Then, video of the fireball rippled around the world almost as quickly.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• But the Lyrid does offer a worthwhile sight: fireballs.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2020
• Video shows a large fireball erupt from a gas pump and at least one man engulfed in flames is seen rolling across the cement.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 May 2022
• The once-in-a-lifetime comet will come within about 44 million miles (nearly 71 million kilometers) of our planet on Saturday and appear as a bright fireball with a long, extended tail.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• This event could generate up to five meteors per hour under a dark sky (for that, try a national park), but there is one hiccup: a bright, 79 percent full moon will wash out all but the most luminous shooting stars and fireballs.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024