The orderly was, however, not killed, but had been seriously hurt by a rifle ball.
In less than ten minutes, while he was riding near me he fell dead from his horse, pierced in the breast by a rifle ball.
We have often tried the breadth of rivers by firing a rifle ball at some well-defined mark on the other side, with the sight adjusted to 100yds.
In calm weather, we have fired a rifle ball, with its utmost range, on the surface of a lake, and have counted seconds from the time we saw the splash till we heard the sound of its fall.
One of them, leaving his companions, came so near our line as to be within the reach of a rifle ball, and was killed by Lieutenant Swift.
The shield is circular, made of bison skin, and thick enough to ward off an arrow; but not to arrest the flight of a rifle ball at close quarters.
In a little while we had a pit, capable of stopping a rifle ball, and considered ourselves ready for any ordinary emergency.
In the afternoon Lieutenant Boggs and David Steen were brought in wounded, the former by a rifle ball in the thigh, the latter severely bruised by a fragment of shell.
Of the former was Jasper Dodds, who was wounded in the knee by a rifle ball.
A man close beside me was struck through the face with a rifle ball, and walked back toward the rear, pale and bleeding.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rifle ball" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
