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Meanings of fireball in English

Catalan
bòlid

A very bright meteor which can be much brighter than any star.

        bòlid

        A highly energetic and indefatigable person.

              Ball of light seen in the sky.

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                      Usage of fireball in English
                      1
                      Mr Moore said the cause of the fireball was not yet clear.
                      The Irish Times
                      2
                      NewsImageFile: The plane crashed into the ground before exploding in a fireball.
                      News.com.au
                      3
                      A fireball streaked through the clear morning sky, followed by loud bangs.
                      BBC
                      4
                      The fireball looked to be coming down right on top of him.
                      Stinger
                      5
                      Some left the shelters after the initial flash to view the fireball.
                      Project Trinity, 1945-1946
                      6
                      The new movie is jammed with fireball explosions and swaggering criminal badasses.
                      BBC
                      7
                      The entire lower level of the station vanished in an expanding fireball.
                      The Complete Alien Omnibus
                      8
                      The blasts caused a huge fireball that could be seen from space.
                      Radio NZ
                      9
                      It was the only decent thing they ever did: becoming a fireball.
                      Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
                      10
                      Last game my character fireball-ed one of the other PC's on accident.
                      Wired
                      11
                      And suddenly, everything forward of the wings was engulfed in a fireball.
                      A knife edge
                      12
                      The bomb explodes in an intense fireball combined with a devastating blast.
                      The Irish Times
                      13
                      The explosion was more of a muted thump than the expected fireball.
                      Monster Hunter International
                      14
                      He stopped and gaped at the fireball in front of his office.
                      Hard eight
                      15
                      The infernal brightness of the fireball dimmed dramatically after the initial glare.
                      Death angel
                      16
                      Above us, the fireball Sun dries the air at an unrelenting 37C.
                      BBC
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                      Translations for fireball
                      Catalan
                      bòlid
                      Fireball through the time
                      Fireball across language varieties
                      Ireland
                      Common
                      United States of America
                      Common
                      United Kingdom
                      Less common