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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.

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Examples

  • She stepped gingerly to the edge of the hole, peered down, then cannonballed through.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • The boys were ready for Asher when he cannonballed into the water.

    One Season of Sunshine Julia London 2010

  • With a whoop he cannonballed into the water in front of the dock.

    Pendragon: Before the War: Book One of the Travelers D. J. MacHale 2009

  • With a whoop he cannonballed into the water in front of the dock.

    Pendragon: Before the War: Book One of the Travelers D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Then Jeremiah made a running leap and cannonballed in, and Conrad followed right behind him.

    The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han 2009

  • She stepped gingerly to the edge of the hole, peered down, then cannonballed through.

    SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006

  • She stepped gingerly to the edge of the hole, peered down, then cannonballed through.

    SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006

  • She stepped gingerly to the edge of the hole, peered down, then cannonballed through.

    SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006

  • She stepped gingerly to the edge of the hole, peered down, then cannonballed through.

    SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006

  • "It will be," says Dr. Heinrich Newmeister of New Belgium Technical Institute Observatory, "As if a GIANT SPACE HAMSTER had cannonballed into the world's largest swimming pool."

    SPECIAL MOON ALERT!!! rabid1st 2003

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