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Example sentences for "fireballs"

Lexicographically close words:
fir; fire; firearm; firearms; fireball; fireboard; firebox; firebrand; firebrands; firebrick
  1. Two more fireballs blossomed, one dangerously close to the Dragon.

  2. There were explosions, fireballs in the air and rising cumulus clouds of varicolored smoke and dust.

  3. Bidding them also take cover, he sent those who had fireballs to creep round the camp and set light to the huts.

  4. When we have driven them out of the camp, those of you who have fireballs will set fire to their huts.

  5. A dozen of the men, besides carrying their weapons, were to sling round their shoulders some large fireballs which had been made under Barney's superintendence from the resin in the confiscated barrels.

  6. They answered the fire, shooting at the pinpoints of light that betrayed the enemy's position, and at the spots in the darkness from which the flaming fireballs came.

  7. From a half-dozen different points fireballs were being lobbed out of the darkness.

  8. This being done, they returned to the assault, to try if by the help of their fireballs they could overcome and pull down the pales before the wall.

  9. Which at last being done, though with great loss of the said religious people, the Pirates mounted them in great numbers, and with no less valour; having fireballs in their hands, and earthen pots full of powder.

  10. Thus they advanced towards the castle, with their swords in one hand and fireballs in the other.

  11. By closely checking the time of the observations, they determined that eight separate fireballs had been seen.

  12. La Paz and his opinion that the green fireballs might be man-made, and although he respected La Paz's professional ability, he just wasn't convinced.

  13. The green fireballs streaked into UFO history late in November 1948, when people around Albuquerque, New Mexico, began to report seeing mysterious "green flares" at night.

  14. La Paz led the group who believed that the green fireballs were not meteors or meteorites.

  15. Some people thought the green fireballs were natural fireballs.

  16. The purpose of the conference was to decide whether the fireballs were natural or man-made and how to find out more about them.

  17. If the green fireballs are back, I hope that Dr.

  18. It was six or eight months later before the subject of green fireballs came up again.

  19. The trajectory of the fireballs was too flat.

  20. Edward Teller, thought that the green fireballs were natural meteors.

  21. No matter what these green fireballs were, the military was getting a little edgy.

  22. But evidently it wasn't conclusive enough because when the conference broke up, after two days, it was decided that the green fireballs were a natural phenomenon of some kind.

  23. One way to be sure was to try to plot the flight path of the green fireballs the same way he had so successfully plotted the flight path of meteorites in the past.

  24. It sounds to me like the green fireballs are back," I answered.

  25. Among all the electrical phenomena to be observed in the atmosphere, there is nothing stranger than those fireballs of which we have already spoken, and which in form and size recall the electric lights in our Paris boulevards.

  26. We try to discover the enigma in the silence of the laboratories, where physicians question science without ceasing; we try to reproduce fireballs artificially, but the problem is complicated, and its solution presents enormous difficulties.

  27. Gardons saw several fireballs flying in different directions, not far from the ground, making a crackling sort of noise.

  28. The variety and eccentricity of fireballs are celebrated in the history of lightning, and I propose to devote the following chapter to their vagaries.

  29. A woman who was in a hut on a neighbouring hill saw three fireballs descend that day, and made sure they would reduce the village to ashes.

  30. In some cases, fireballs have been seen to come down from the sky apparently, and then, after almost reaching but not actually touching the ground, to ascend again.

  31. It is not long since the existence of these fireballs has been acknowledged by scientists as an actual fact.

  32. Now they were in the midst of the fireballs flying in every direction all round them, revolving as they went, reddish in colour, like saffron lit up.

  33. With animals these fireballs seem deadlier and more merciless than with human beings.

  34. According to records which seem authentic, fireballs have been seen actually to come into existence upon the surface of a ceiling, at the mouth of a well, and upon the flagstones of a church.

  35. Bougon, has discovered an account of one of the most remarkable fireballs ever recorded in La Gloire des Confesseurs, a work written by Gregory of Tours, the twentieth bishop of that town.

  36. There are many cases of fireballs playing about the lightning conductors without being caught.

  37. They then send up fireballs which light all the ground.

  38. I wish we had the high-priced illuminating fireballs he spoke of.

  39. The fireballs paused there for half a minute, and then vanished.

  40. A large supply of the fireballs had been placed on the platforms and, as these were lighted and thrown down, the assailants were exposed to a deadly shower of arrows as they rushed forward.

  41. Behind the carrying parties was a dense crowd of Malays, who rushed forward as soon as the fireballs fell, hurling their spears and shooting their arrows, to which the defenders replied vigorously.

  42. In a few moments the enemy ceased shooting their arrows, for the light of the fireballs showed them that the garrison was in shelter.

  43. Their leaders had carefully gone round the quarter, and had picked out the stores or warehouses into which the fireballs were to be flung.

  44. The fireballs had been prepared in the cabin of the fishing boat.

  45. They had "fireballs in their hands and earthen pots full of powder," which "they kindled and cast in among the Spaniards" from the summits of the walls.

  46. As soon as it was dark, they made another furious assault, flinging their fireballs against the palings in order to burst the planks apart.

  47. While the guns were deserted, the pirates ran along the bottom of the ditch, thrusting their fireballs under the palisadoes, which now began to burn in many places.

  48. Vague recollections came to him of something he had read about fireballs in defence of towns during the wars in the Netherlands.

  49. It is a long bold step from fireballs to flying saucers, Jimmy.

  50. Release them and send them to the lowest level where, guarded by the cubes, they will be set to constructing fireballs like those in which they arrived for the use of Earth if Dalis, or the Martians, ever attack again!

  51. But they did not hold back, flew onward through the gloom, leaving behind them the brightly lighted areas where Gens of Earth battled with the fireballs of the Martians, moving into the area of the eery glowing of the cubes.

  52. It was much to ask, for if one single one of these fire-balls could wreak such havoc with the people of Earth, what would be the destruction by the countless other unexploded fireballs of the Martians?

  53. Strange, too, that the fireballs made no noise.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fireballs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.