(n.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.
(n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camping was disarmingly honest about the impact the world's inconvenient continuance was having on him, after he predicted 200 million Christians would rise to heaven by 6pm on Saturday followed by the destruction of the Earth in a massive fireball.
(2) Tonight they’re dancing the Quickstep to 'Man With the Hex' by Atomic Fireballs.
(3) A plane-spotter, Anthony Castorani, told CNN he heard a "pop" as the jet landed, followed by a brief fireball at which point the aircraft began to break up and spin.
(4) A Russian spacecraft that broke down on its way to the International Space Station last week will burn up in a bright fireball as it falls back to Earth, according to the country’s space agency.
(5) It showed that at the very beginning of the universe, the smallest building blocks of nature were truly weightless, but became heavy a fraction of a second later, when the fireball of the big bang cooled.
(6) Her husband, who was in another part of town when the blast hit, told her a huge fireball rose like "a mushroom cloud".
(7) A tour guide who spoke to the men before they took off saw a large fireball in the distance soon after the helicopter departed, said police assistant commissioner Neil Smith.
(8) He described the giant fireball as a massive force that shook his car.
(9) St Louis rookie fireballer Trevor Rosenthal struck out the side in the ninth, fanning Andre Ethier on three pitches to end it.
(10) Stationed against them are the young, invariably seen as fireballs of energy and new ideas.
(11) Others suffered retinal burns from watching the fireball, or burns that left their skin peeling.
(12) One of the last major disasters in the British Isles, the Summerland fire of 1973, occurred when a new hi-tech entertainment venue on the Isle of Man – a single, gigantic, air-conditioned space connecting various leisure activities – was turned into a massive fireball by a discarded cigarette.
(13) An hour earlier, Channel 4's Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space averaged 2 million and a 6.7% share.
(14) The blast shook the earth and rolled a huge fireball through the town at about 8pm local time, raining burning debris and shrapnel over a five-block radius.
(15) These microscopic fireballs of energy condense into well known subatomic particles, but scientists hope that among them they will see other more exotic particles, including the Higgs boson .
(16) We passed streets of crumpled buildings, long banks of debris, shopfront shutters buckled by the vacuum bombs that suck in and ignite the air to create fireballs.
(17) The official said Shahzad went back last Saturday and left the Pathfinder loaded with firecrackers, petrol and propane, potentially enough to create a fireball and kill people nearby including tourists and Broadway theatregoers.
(18) The fireball could be bright enough to see in broad daylight, Krag said.
(19) "In my judgment, it would have caused casualties, a significant fireball.
(20) The huge fireball and explosion of smoke were worse than I had imagined.
Meteor
Definition:
(n.) Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
(n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 64-year-old female patient was admitted to our department for fatigue, pain in the right upper abdomen, obstipation, and meteorism.
(2) He promised to unite a divided and fractured France, saying: “I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.” Speaking of his meteoric rise and victory that was not forecast even a year ago, he said: “Everyone said it was impossible.
(3) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(4) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.
(5) In the past this column has highlighted the social impact the meteoric rise in buy-to-let has had on “generation rent”, now locked out of the property market.
(6) Right subcostal pain, meteorism, and nausea due to faulty diet showed a slight difference in favour of the laparoscopic method when compared to traditional surgery.
(7) Her meteoric rise as a teenage sensation was slowed immediately after she reached the world No1 ranking in 2006 with what became a long series of shoulder issues.
(8) While his meteoric rise to fame may not be as remarkable as the Mars landing itself, it prompts the question: what is it about Bobak Ferdowsi that turned him into a meme?
(9) Extensive toxicological examinations revealed with high doses all typical symptoms of overdosing an anticholinergic drug, like mydriasis, dryness of the mucosae and meteorism with coprostasis.
(10) Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting on its pledge to "create cells in every corner of the world".
(11) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(12) Some in the fibre yoghurt group experienced meteorism and loose stools.
(13) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
(14) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(15) The impacts release profound amounts of energy: the meteor that tore into the sky over Chelyabinsk in Russia this year arrived at more than 18 kilometres per second and exploded with 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
(16) Ron Pernick, managing director of Clean Edge and a report author, called the economic giant's "meteoric" surge "very striking."
(17) In addition to mechanical problems with the jejunal catheter abdominal complications arose during enteral alimentation (meteorism, distension), leading to discontinuation in one-third of cases.
(18) However, several aspects of the pathogenesis of the individual symptoms of IBS are well known: 1) chronic constipation is most likely due to fibre-depleted diet, psychological factors, local organic disorders (e.g., anal fissures, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis) and disturbance of the body fluid balance (e.g., high consumption of diuretic compounds such as coffee and tea); 2) pain is related to spasms and motility disturbances causing increased intraluminal pressure; 3) meteorism is not due to an increased amount of intestinal gas, but "air traps" and segmental accumulation of gas seem to occur.
(19) The breakdown of the carbohydrates by the colonic bacterial flora can cause intestinal symptoms, such as meteorism, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
(20) Subjective complaints were improved in both treatment groups except for nausea and meteorism that improved more in the CBS treated patients.