cue ball

noun

: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards and pool

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Their mother swooped in, her white head glistening in the late afternoon sunshine like a cue ball under bar lights. —

Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 July 2020 Even better, the Mach 1's shift knob is the same retro white cue ball as the Bullitt. —

Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020 See More

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