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How to use the word Fireball in a Sentence?

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For the light (of the fireball) to overwhelm the brightness of the day, it was a significant event.

Darryl Pitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only 8,000 production models made, straight-eight. Fireball eight. First full year of the DynaFlow Transmission.

Sanford Babbitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the first time we have clear evidence of glasses on Earth that were created by the thermal radiation and winds from a fireball exploding just above the surface, to have such a dramatic effect on such a large area, this was a truly massive explosion. Lots of us have seen bolide( bright meteor) fireballs streaking across the sky, but those are tiny blips compared to this.

Pete Schultz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I stand up on overwatch and we start rolling forward. And 30 seconds later, I see a Marine in the open. I see a fireball. And then I see I, you know, start to feel explode, you know, start to hear the explosion because you always kind of feel it and see things first and then then you actually hear it, it was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition.

Michael Logue

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Neighbors described seeing and hearing a plane heading from east to west, it sounded like a loud winding noise as the plane was then observed going over a wooded area, [ and ] dropped from the sky. There was a loud crash and a fireball.

Sheriff Sheron

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We got hit with the big bomb and that exploded like a million pounds of ammunition. The fireball went about 60, 70 feet in the air. we proceeded to go hand over hand across the line about 70 feet.

Donald Stratton

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Tragically, there appear to be no survivors as a result of the crash down in the Snowy Monaro area, (The tanker) impacted heavily with the ground and initial reports are that there was a large fireball associated with the impact of the plane as it hit the ground. There is no indication at this stage of what's caused the accident.

Shane Fitzsimmons

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This fireball likely dropped a small number of meteorites in the Bancroft area, specifically near the small town of Cardiff. We suspect meteorites made it to the ground because the fireball ended very low in the atmosphere just to the west of Bancroft and slowed down significantly. This is a good indicator that material survived.

Western University

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We got hit with the big bomb and that exploded like a million pounds of ammunition. The fireball went about 60, 70 feet in the air, the explosion could have taken us away, but it didn't and thank God we made it across.

Donald Stratton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We got hit with the big bomb and that exploded like a million pounds of ammunition. The fireball went about sixty, seventy feet in the air, the explosion could have taken us away, but it didn't and thank God we made it across.

Donald Stratton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It instantly didn't look good, there was a big plume of smoke, and then (another) big plume of smoke came from the Honda. I could see the fireball.

Missouri State Trooper Jim Thuss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was sitting there looking out at the wing, and the entire wing exploded in a fireball.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Next thing I know the thing just made contact with the ground and a big old fireball came out.

Ben Goldberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Then you'll see basically a fireball race across the trees.

Mark Paquette

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You'll hear a jet sort of sound start up in the forest, followed by a really black smoke, then you'll see basically a fireball race across the trees.

Mark Paquette

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's so easy to drink that you forget you're drinking alcohol. It's very sweet. You hardly taste the whiskey at all, i've known people who can't do shots, but they can do Fireball.

Zachary Jones

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Fireball is an incredible phenomenon. The growth of it has just been astounding, for a whiskey, this is unprecedented.

Lew Bryson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's an easy shot. You can drink a lot of them. With Fireball, you don't need a chaser, it's the one thing I can throw out there and it never fails.

Kelvin Davis

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As I got closer, the flames were just bigger and bigger, it was shooting up to 200 feet or more, and a fireball maybe 10 to 15 feet in diameter. It was like out of a movie.

Kevin Ling

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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