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billiard ball

NOUN
  1. ball used in playing billiards

How To Use billiard ball In A Sentence

  • If I strike a billiard ball with a cue stick, I effect a transfer of [physical] energy.
  • The first plastic, celluloid, was synthesized from nitrated cotton fiber and camphor in 1869, to make a cheaper substitute for ivory billiard balls.
  • What could be more deterministic than the motion of billiard balls on a billiard table?
  • a billiard ball
  • The first plastic, celluloid, was synthesized from nitrated cotton fiber and camphor in 1869, to make a cheaper substitute for ivory billiard balls.
  • An early experiment with collodion (a mixture of guncotton, ethyl alcohol, and ether) produced billiard balls that burst into flame when touched with a lighted cigar; and occasionally exploded when two balls collided.
  • A billiard ball sitting on a billiard table needs to be struck in such a way to simultaneously reduce the risk of a rival scoring from it, and maximise the score available, for instance by potting it into a pocket.
  • The billiard ball travelled gently across the table.
  • Bloke called Humber," said the pretty boy, 'he couldn't train ivy up a wall. and he has about as many winners as tits on a billiard ball. For Kicks
  • Here I am with my little forty nine-years -- no more hair than a billiard ball, a witchgrass beard that would make good herb-tea, foundations not too solid, feet as long as La Villette -- and with all the rest thin enough to take a bath in a musket-barrel. Germinie Lacerteux
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