dictionnaire Français - Anglais

balle Anglais:

1. ball

Catch the ball!

Do you believe that the universe began as a small ball of fire?

I broke the one I've been using till now this morning while playing with a ball in the room.

It is characteristic of the fork ball, one of baseball's change-ups, that a ball that flew straight will drop suddenly just before the batter.

Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again? "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."

He looked deeply into his crystal ball and predicted my future.

Sharapova's shots are very fast but...a fast ball means that it will come back that much faster.

I bought a new ball point pen with an electronic watch especially for this test.

That shan't happen again, Fortunatus said to himself, and they started to ride at each other again. This time, Fortunatus's spear met his foe so powerfully that he flew from his horse like a ball and lay dead on the earth.

Ball the paper and throw at Peter's head. He balled some snow and built a snowman

Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.

The tape having been replayed, the referee conceded that the ball had crossed the line.

In the Greek football game, the players on one team tried to carry a ball across a line in the other team's territory.

In fact, you could do anything you wanted in order to get or keep the ball.

The game of pinball involves directing a little steel ball onto ramps and into holes with a pair of flippers.

Anglais mot "balle"(ball) se produit dans des ensembles:

Fiches du livre - "Mothers to Men" (Zona Gale)
Fiches du livre - "The Anti-Slavery Harp" (Various)
Fiches du livre - "No Great Magic" (Fritz Reuter L...
Fiches du livre - "The Gray Goose's Story" (Amy Pr...
Fiches du livre - "On the Church Steps" (Sarah C. ...

2. chaff

sort the wheat from the chaff

The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.

Anglais mot "balle"(chaff) se produit dans des ensembles:

Fiches du livre - "Hints on Driving" (C. S. Ward)
Fiches du livre - "The Story of Louie" (Oliver Oni...
Fiches du livre - "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (Os...
Fiches du livre - "Goops and How to Be Them" (Gele...
Fiches du livre - "Kensington Rhymes" (Compton Mac...

3. bullet

Bite the bullet.

The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and the bullet almost struck his wife.

A new kind of bullet had been invented.

Jackson asked the doctor to cut out the bullet at once.

Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of peace, was killed by an assassin's bullet.

Once, when I went to my friend Kawai's house, he fired a pistol. He thought it was not loaded and pointed it at my mouth, but it was and the bullet grazed my ear before hitting the closet.

We were afraid that we might be hit by a bullet, so we ran downstairs.

Take it! It's a magic bullet.

Traffic was also disrupted including the suspension of the Akita, Tohoku bullet train.

He was taken to hospital with a bullet wound.

A bullet from a gun was found at the crime scene.

Malaria killed more people in Italy during World War II than bombs and bullets put together.

He shot 3 bullets, but none of them reached their goals.

According to the regulations you will not be able to carry bullets onboard.

The man fired three times but each bullet missed.