How to Use fireball in a Sentence

fireball

noun
Definition of fireballnext
Synonyms for fireballnext
  • The house erupted into a fireball.
  • Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
  • The photo shows a beam of light stretching from the sky to the ground and a glowing fireball on the ground.
    — Kelli Weir, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Video from the scene shows a massive fireball erupting from the park.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The fireball lit up the night sky like an early sunrise.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Back in 2014, a fireball exploded in the skies over Papua New Guinea.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Five of the six on board the latter aircraft died as a fireball engulfed it.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Much of the structure collapsed after a large fireball shot out the house.
    — Liam Quinn, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In what’s known as the City of Lights, people even in Paris shared video of the fireball careening across the night sky.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The skies over Texas have never seen a fireball quite like this before.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The fireballs can be seen once Earth runs into a dense stream of debris from the Comet Halley.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
  • In 1066, a likeness of the fireball was stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The 100-foot fireball that shot into the sky was visible for miles.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • As the two ships ground against each other, sparks lit a massive fireball.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • Many Floridians watched the space crew's return, which looked like a fireball in the sky.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2023
  • At its peak, the fireball was more than 10 times brighter than a full moon, officials said.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 3 May 2022
  • Video shows a large fireball erupt from a gas pump and at least one man engulfed in flames is seen rolling across the cement.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 May 2022
  • The fireballs are the result of Earth running into a dense stream of debris from the Comet Halley.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Mario can’t sprint, toss fireballs or anything like that.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Laena commands her dragon to spit a fireball in the air.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Some ran in panic as a massive fireball turned the sky orange and gave off oven-like heat.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Reports claimed a fireball and various lights passed over the sky over the course of about 10 seconds.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The blast sent up a plume of black smoke and a fireball that was large enough to reach a transformer on a power line, damaging it.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The video shared by a resident on Sunday night shows a large fireball and smoke turning the sky in the area orange.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Separate video footage from the ground showed a fireball burst into the sky, and at least two people ran away on fire.
    — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • The impact on the grounds of al-Ahli Hospital caused a large explosion and fireball to erupt.
    — Imogen Piper, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But the thing was that the skateboarder blew the fireball point-blank into my face, so my entire head was on fire from the shoulders up.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022
  • As many as 20 vehicles burned in a huge fireball that ignited homes all along one side of the street.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Not just the confetti, but also pyro in the form of fireballs pluming out from the sides of the stage and sparks showering down from the tops of it.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The camera points through an ornate fence before a whooshing sound tears through the night and a large fireball plumes in the middle distance.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'fireball.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: