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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His idea was this: Suppose you fire a cannonball vertically upward from the surface of the earth.
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In a bright opening, Mark Hughes, 10 yards out, hit a cannonball that flew off Knight's legs.
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In November, Salisbury, a chivalric figure, was killed, the victim of a cannonball .
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It is not really consistent to treat light like cannonballs.
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Its wake bounces our little craft like a swimming pool float after a fat kid cannonballs off the diving board.
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Terminal tackle: Use a sinker release with a 2-to 3-pound lead cannonball sinker.
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The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs.
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You will see cannonballs embedded like raisins in the walls: these came from the Prussian bombardment of 1757.