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Examples of cue ball in a Sentence
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Essentially, the idea is to shoot the cue ball into the object ball and make the cue ball replace where the object was.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Lookin like a cue ball and took that beautiful mullet away from us.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2023
Images of Io’s next-door neighbor, Europa, revealed another utterly unexpected landscape: smooth as a cue ball and nearly as white, except for a network of thin, faint brownish fractures.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016
The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
—John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
The whole set comes with a cue ball, 15 regulation balls, a ball rack, two cue sticks, 2 pieces of cue chalk and a felt brush.
—Kelley Rebori, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
Without sweat to help his grip, Scherzer said the baseball felt like a cue ball in his hand.
—New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
And what about the initial velocity of the cue ball?
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Dec. 2021
Inside the car’s purposeful cockpit is a manual stick shift, topped with a traditional black cue ball on a chrome shaft, diligently clunked through a heavy slotted five-speed gate with Reverse located at the top left.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near cue ball
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“Cue ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cue%20ball. Accessed 14 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
cue ball
noun
: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards or pool
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