beach ball
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Toughest assignment: It was engraving a globe-shaped trophy for the New York Yacht Club that was the size of a beach ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Past highlights of the festival include “Parasite” filmmaker Bong Joon Ho spiking a beach ball into the audience or Arnold Schwarzenegger arm-wrestling a 9-year-old boy, outrageous moments that won’t happen anywhere else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
He said they ranged in size from "maybe the size of a dinner plate to maybe a beach ball - there were really some good-sized ones".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
“How many pea-sized particles can you put in the beach ball? It can be packed with this viral material, or it can be nothing there.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Far off, I could hear the shouts of the children playing with the big, bright beach ball their Tia Elsa had brought them from the capital.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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