Examples of ball of fire in a Sentence
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The second stage exploded in this huge ball of fire, and then the payload kind of teetered on top of the transporter erector.
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ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
Video of the incident captures the truck exploding in a ball of fire, and fireworks can also be seen going off in all directions.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
Spicy-dish lawsuit by San Jose doctor against Los Gatos restaurant set for jury trial
Great balls of fire!
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The dragons met violently a thousand feet above the field of battle, as balls of fire burst and blossomed, so bright that men swore later that the sky was full of suns.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2024
Annie Jacobsen So with a 1-megaton bomb on Washington, DC, what happens in the very first millisecond is that this thermonuclear flash expands into a ball of fire that is one mile of pure fire.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
The liquid ignited into a large ball of fire, the video showed.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2024
And for a while last week, they were dropped from a helicopter over the forest outside Payson, raining actual balls of fire.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
Footage on Chinese social media showed a ball of fire spreading to the exterior of the building.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
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ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
Video of the incident captures the truck exploding in a ball of fire, and fireworks can also be seen going off in all directions.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
Spicy-dish lawsuit by San Jose doctor against Los Gatos restaurant set for jury trial
Great balls of fire!
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The dragons met violently a thousand feet above the field of battle, as balls of fire burst and blossomed, so bright that men swore later that the sky was full of suns.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2024
Annie Jacobsen So with a 1-megaton bomb on Washington, DC, what happens in the very first millisecond is that this thermonuclear flash expands into a ball of fire that is one mile of pure fire.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
The liquid ignited into a large ball of fire, the video showed.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2024
And for a while last week, they were dropped from a helicopter over the forest outside Payson, raining actual balls of fire.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
Footage on Chinese social media showed a ball of fire spreading to the exterior of the building.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
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“Ball of fire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball%20of%20fire. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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