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.
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  • 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.
  • 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 early-morning cannonade on the castle opened the action the next day. Between War and Peace
  • Riding a magnificent horse over flower-strewn, gold-embroidered carpets, greeted by cannonades and cheers, Jem happily confirms the rumour that ‘the Rhodian women were considered the loveliest in Europe‘.
  • When she heard the term dissociative fugue, she imagined a cannonade of piano keys. VAPOR TRAIL
  • The winds buffeted the houses, slates blew off roofs and cannonaded against roads or windows in their path.
  • Surprisingly, after his cannonade of criticism, Kramer's book offers only small-bore recommendations, ‘modest’ by his own admission.
  • As a result, the swiftly flowing river cannonaded into the north cliff face that formed the base of the mountain Aracunga, five thou'sand meters below their feet. Voyage To The City Of The Dead
  • But I hadn't time to feel too satisfied, for in that moment there was a new thunderous cannonade from the Russians, much closer now; the whistle of shot sounded overhead, there was a great babble of shouting and orders from the cavalry behind me, the calls of the Lights and Heavies sounded, and the whole mass of our horse began to move off westward, retiring again. The Sky Writer
  • The trauma on Tuesday was followed in the middle of Thursday night by a storm, a howling banshee that shook buildings—thunder like a cannonade, lightning tearing through the sky. We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We
  • Megalithic standing stones and a 5000 year-old passage grave, a twelfth century church ruin, a fourteenth century O'Driscoll castle, cannonaded in the early 1600s, suggest times past.
  • What we need is a cannonade to knock out whoever might be there.
  • They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.
  • Opal laughed again and let loose a cannonade of bullets, all steel-tipped for the armor of the truck, and stood his ground as the truck continued to slew towards him.
  • Brown intends to put this right in his budget speech next week, however, when he will launch a cannonade against what their cuts in services would mean.
  • As the straight drives cannonaded off Ranji's bat, father stopped bowling lest he get hurt!
  • Clouds of brown smoke from burning corn and the thatched root's of villages rolled across the battlefield under a gentle westerly breeze, streaked at intervals with the black, oily discharge of a flaming tank; the continuous rattle and chatter of small-arms fire was overlaid by a steady cannonade from the Russian 76-mm. 's and the scream of Katyusha rockets; periodically the high-pitched slap of the 88-mm. 's told of the Tigers 'defending themselves some three to four miles away. Barbarossa
  • Masked Mexican batteries poured a fierce cannonade, catching Worth unaware and cutting swaths through his troops. Between War and Peace
  • Mont – Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was burned, La Les Miserables
  • During the three days no help came to Bellew and shortly after Hardress cannonaded the castle and town and took it.
  • Surprisingly, after his cannonade of criticism, Kramer's book offers only small-bore recommendations, ‘modest’ by his own admission.
  • What air there was might touch all alike, but would affect least the "Lawrence," "Detroit," and "Queen Charlotte," because their sails were being rent; and also they were in the centre of the cannonade, which is believed usually to kill the breeze. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2
  • Full-page ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post are now standard weapons for enviro campaigns, but no one had thought of using advertising as a cannonade before Brower.
  • We seem to have survived the cannonade of illegal fireworks. Entry #2,205
  • I have sustained a continual Bombardment of increased high-stakes testing and accountability-related bureaucracy and a cannonade of gross underfunding for 10 years at least and have lost several good men and women. Texas district schools chief issues plea in Alamo-like letter
  • When we got inside the French works, I was astonished to observe how little harm had been done the defenses by the German artillery, for although I had not that serene faith in the effectiveness of their guns held by German artillerists generally, yet I thought their terrific cannonade must have left marked results. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • Even when slavery was first introduced into this country, Fate had written upon the walls of the nation that it “must go,” and go it must, as the result of wise statesmanship or amid the smoke of battle and the awful “diapason of cannonade.” Black and White
  • After half an hour of the heaviest cannonade ever known, Wellington's faithful troops were threatened by an avalanche of cavalry, and promptly fell into the "chequer" disposition previously arranged for the most exposed division, that of Alten. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • Our forces being landed and stationed as I have already mentioned, set about erecting a fascine battery to cannonade the principal fort of the enemy; and in something more than three weeks, it was ready to open. The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • When she heard the term dissociative fugue, she imagined a cannonade of piano keys. VAPOR TRAIL
  • The Viennese and Hungarian crowds were cannonaded from their strongholds, and in Germany a constitutional assembly that had been bravely debating the question of republicanism broke down into factional bickering and then ignominiously offered the country to Frederick William IV of Prussia. The Worldly Philosophers
  • In the 2000 ceremony, to make up for lost time, the Church created 860 additional saints, making this by far the biggest cannonade of saints ever set off in Russia.
  • The cannonade which Bonaparte had heard since the morning, and the explosion of a Turkish gunboat, which was blown up by the artillery of the xebec, led him to fear that our situation was really perilous. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • The son et lumière raged off Southsea Common, watched by hundreds of thousands of people long past dusk, before a stunning 15-minute cannonade of fireworks lit up the Solent.
  • Yet, what impresses throughout is the highly imaginative state-of-the-art stagecraft depicting everything from cannonades against sailing ships to samurai massacres.
  • Their cannonade, although impressive, was quite ineffective.
  • The great "artillery duel," as American writers are so fond of calling what used to be termed a cannonade, seems to have astounded the Federal organs into something like frankness and veracity. London; Saturday, May 2, 1863
  • A desultory cannonade began at about 14.00, and as it seemed likely that there would be no battle that day Newcastle retired to his coach.
  • All killings, all maimings, all arrogant demolishions of people's homes, all assassinations, all bombings, all suicide attacks, all aerial slaugherings, all tank cannonades, all invasions are inherently wrong.
  • A national salute and two cannonades, one from Brooklyn Heights the other from Jersey City, greeted the Vanderbilt.
  • This was a recipe for confusion and bloodshed; it culminated in the disastrous French cannonade on Damascus in November 1944.
  • Soon after 6 pm the spasmodic barking of the night-time cannonade (now normal in spite of its intensity) gave place to a ‘kettle-drum bombardment’.
  • The drums of the spirits cannonaded through the treetops; clouds gathered above him and crouched, low and ready. Spirited
  • Melba's initial trill possessed the ballistic force of a cannonade.
  • As the season gets later, the birds do not shift their ground so frequently; and, moreover, getting scared by the eternal cannonade which is kept up, they fly very high when they do cross. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
  • “M. Aronnax,” he replied, “dare you affirm that your frigate would not as soon have pursued and cannonaded a submarine boat as a monster?” Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • I had braved before I returned to my wife; and our frigate being aground for a time and got off with difficulty, was agreeably cannonaded by the enemy until she got off her bank. The Virginians
  • National Day is more ceremonial, including military parades, cannonades, and a ‘Te Deum’ sung in the national cathedral.
  • None of them were present at the famous cannonade, but their main forces were certainly caught up in the rain-soaked and disease-ravaged retreat which followed.

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