How to Use fireball in a Sentence

fireball

noun
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  • 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 goal of shooting a fireball is to take that ball of fire and increase its speed.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • 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 fireball pulsed upwards from the force of its own shockwave.
    — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Then that fireball gets doused by a wave of ice-cold lime and orange.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], 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
  • Damage caused to a battery might not lead to a fireball for days or even months later.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Not only that, but the Quadrantids can often feature bright fireball meteors that can light up any part of the night sky.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025

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