fireball
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈfaɪərˌbɔl/
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bola de fuego
- Why, there was a fireball in the sky as big as a house.
- bright fireball
- brilliant fireball
- path of a fireball
And it was like a three story high fireball.
- And it was like a three story high fireball.
- So just of pure fire, pure fire, hurricane of fire, everything in that fireball is incinerated.
- There were tanks and cannons that would go along the ground and shoot fireballs out as they pushed themselves along with fireworks.
- And every now and then they notice a collision between an object from space with Earth because they see the fireball.
- It was a planet Venus, or was the Pleiades or you saw, you know, a fireball go through the atmosphere.
- We torched her farm the the biggest fireball came off when he hit the hit the diesel fuel.
- That was what most people saw as big fireballs in the sky and misunderstood as intercepts of of Scud warheads.
- There could be a giant pink elephant and a gorilla, you know, juggling, you know, fireballs.
Examples
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The impact shoots a fireball that rises 200 feet above the building.
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The explosion created a massive fireball that illuminated the entire area.
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Perhaps you remember the big fireball yesterday.
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There was a big fireball out in the sky!
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Crucially, however, the fireball did not touch the ground.
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Everyone who was there recalled the giant explosion and fireball that could be seen in Chicago.
Academic text (1995) -
Suddenly, a big beautiful purple and orange fireball erupts, lighting up the sky.
Fiction book (1996) -
What you're looking at is dramatic video of a fireball touching down near the San Diego Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Suddenly, the jet erupts into a gigantic fireball, which lights up the desert sky for miles.
Fiction book (1996) -
My father, clambering down the ladder, panicked, was lifted by the fireball and thrown through the air.
Synonyms
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4.1
A small rock from space that burns up as a bright streak in the sky
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2.6
A bright streak of light in the night sky when a small rock from space burns up
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9.9
A very bright meteor that may explode in the sky
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fireball comes from the two simple words fire ('hot, burning') and ball ('round object'), so it literally paints the picture of a 'round ball of fire'. That's why the word fits a very bright, burning ball of light in the sky or the blast from an explosion.