The outer wall of our house now has a basketball-size crater to prove it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words in a French Life] Reference

He was a young man with a basketball-size knot of dreadlocked hair bundled behind his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench] Reference

“And you need to stick that basketball-size thing that you call a breast back in your top.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazy Love] Reference

They sat in a booth and ordered beers, a basketball-size fried onion as an appetizer and their meals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Pursuit]

When the landlord cut off his electricity because the rent was unpaid, Lee began smashing basketball-size holes in the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father, Where Art Thou?] Reference

The Soviet launch of a basketball-size object called Sputnik in October 1957 served as a wake up call for a relatively fat and happy United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's a 'Sputnik moment'?] Reference

There in his hands rests a weighty, basketball-size lump of nails fused together in their bins by the heat into a grotesque form resembling a metallic porcupine.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets] Reference

In what was possibly the equivalent of a suspicious human raising narrowed eyelids, the two basketball-size eyes slowly extended to left and right on their muscular stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost And Found]

About a dozen years after Simba died at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a half-inch slab of her yellowish, wrinkled, basketball-size brain was laid out before John Allman, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smithsonian - Brain Cells for Socializing] Reference

Makes: 8 servings basketball-size pumpkin tablespoons unsalted butter.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

At McDonnell Douglas, he worked on the design of basketball-size communication satellites.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Although the largest particles are golfball to basketball-size, they are porous and fluffy.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

As un-WAC as this might read, Boise didn't go 14-0 and finish fourth nationally in 2009 solely by posting basketball-size scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Top Talk] Reference

The basketball-size diaphragm in the center, speckled with white spots on the inside, enclosed a disk resembling a spiky lotus flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

A basketball-size chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsOK.com RSS - home] Reference

And he was part of the American team that would challenge the Russians for predominance in space and sweep the Soviet launch of its basketball-size Sputnik satellite from memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [springfieldnewssun.com - News] Reference

Elsewhere, a woman commuting to work in northwest Colorado was killed Wednesday when a basketball-size boulder fell on a car on U.S. 40, about 60 miles north of the I-70 incident, the Colorado State Patrol said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

At our class last week in Columbus, we came upon a little area in the woods with basketball-size snowy-white giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea) and on Wednesday, the OSU Portage County Master Gardeners found a mass of small puffballs at Adell Durbin Arboretum in Stow, a great little park and arboretum where good friend Dave Roberts has tended the grounds for many years.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When I heave the large storage ottoman out of the way, there it is—the basketball-size splotch on Mom’s white rug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Faith] Reference