cannonade

How To Use cannonade In A Sentence

• He installed his artillery atop the nearest bluff, and furiously cannonaded the opposite shore. History of American Women
• They were thrilled by the appearance of a l2-person heritage guard, a cannonade fired in salute and a fly past by a Navy Seahawk helicopter from HMAS ALBATROSS.
• When she heard the term dissociative fugue, she imagined a cannonade of piano keys. VAPOR TRAIL
• The cannonade from the fleets was so violent that people along the west coast of Jutland were prevented from sleeping during the whole night, and foregathered on the beach.
• An immersion theatre using the latest special effects will give visitors an idea of the bloody carnage that the relentless cannonade of grapeshot inflicted on the Jacobite lines.
• Having secretly sowed treason in the Benga li ranks, he seized the high ground and cannonaded his disoriented enemy. Companies to Colonies
• Three times the German armor attempted to break through, but, as more battalions of American artillery joined the cannonade, the enemy at last gave way.
• I know what it means to live in terror, to run under air strikes and cannonades, to see people killed and houses destroyed, to starve and dream of a piece of bread, to miss even a glass of drinking water.
• Cannonade leaped so big that the lookers-on holloed. Right Royal
• I asked him if he sincerely thought that his daily cannonade of reports, forms, checks and feedbacks led to a better or worse health service, whether in the short term or the long.