billiard ball
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of billiard ball
First recorded in 1630–40
Example Sentences
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The basic question is a simple one: once a billiard ball is played, where does it go and where does it end up?
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024
“We will prove wrong those who are currently portraying our continent as a billiard ball in a great geo-economical game between China and the United States.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022
Yet Albert Einstein showed in 1905 that light travels as particles, called photons, each of which can knock an electron out of an atom like a miniature billiard ball.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2018
From the opening sub-Hitchcock cut, from eyeball to sun to billiard ball, it’s a work of bizarre period art.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2017
Trueba resisted stoically until the day he found his granddaughter Alba with her head shaved like a billiard ball, endlessly repeating the sacred word Om.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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