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"Cannon" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The cannon went off by accident.
Never use a cannon to kill a fly.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
This church was destroyed by cannon fire.
This problem certainly requires a solution, but that's like shooting a cannon at sparrows.
He's a loose cannon.
The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts much longer.
The cannon! They're loading the cannon! Why? Ah! They're going to shoot! Pick up speed - one, two, one, two!
"It's a cannon shot, is it not?" I nodded.
The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder.
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Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar
water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon
a canon of beef or lamb
Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)
In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
He’s got a cannon out in right.
The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century.
During the second half of the century the upper cannons were often joined to the pauldrons […] Here the cannons and the couter, although separate, are joined together when worn by the points securing them to the arming […]
The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets. The arm defenses were almost always in one piece, the lower and upper cannons joined permanently to the couter with internal leathers and rivets, and the whole frequently also joined permanently to the pauldron.
I also learned never to conspicuoulsy^([sic]) watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.
A good pickpocket is known to his fellows as a pistol. Rufus Dayne is a cannon. One of the best pickpockets in the country, he makes close to a million dollars a year and has no criminal record at all.
The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.
[…] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.
The hearing in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., could touch on other issues, including the scheduling of the trial.
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