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carom

[ UK /kˈæɹɒm/ ]
VERB
  1. rebound after hitting
    The car caromed off several lampposts
  2. make a carom
NOUN
  1. a glancing rebound
  2. a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

How To Use carom In A Sentence

  • As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
  • The ball crashed off the center field wall before caroming back onto the outfield grass.
  • He checks the foul lines to see which way bunts will roll, then it's out to center to fire balls off the wall to see how they will carom.
  • She hurled it at the ant, and the stone caromed off the carapace.
  • I wonder how many of those 15 triples were cannon-shot line drives which caromed off the Green Monster at unpredictable angles. Fiction and the empirical turn
  • More difficult are cushion caroms and balkline, in which restrictions are imposed by lines drawn on the table.
  • The ball hit the base runner and caromed into the hands of the second baseman who threw the batter/runner out.
  • The puck caromed off another spectator before hitting Cecil, whose seat was more than 100 feet behind the glass.
  • The car caromed off several lampposts
  • Smith dove to his left and as the ball caromed into the air, he reached high, grabbed it barehanded and threw Burroughs out at first.
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