Example sentences for: cannon

How can you use “cannon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Figure .a exhibits a cannon, clearly marked “cannon,” firing a cannonball, clearly marked “cannonball,” that hits the ground some distance away, creating a hole, clearly marked “hole.”

  • Cannon tabulated an attrition rate of 1.5% for new meanings and new items originally admitted to the Merriam Addenda Sections which were cumulatively included in reprints of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961) at five-year intervals in the 1966-81 period, but then were excluded from Merriam's 9,000 Words (1983).

  • The AFI Cannon

  • Walking further south along the promenade past remnants of the ancient sea wall brings you to another small bay where you will find the Hellenic Maritime Museum, a semicircular museum with small garden in front complete with cannon.

  • The owner of a dying burlesque house whose side business, the illegal numbers racket, has become his lone source of income, Nate loses a fortune to a small-time black drug dealer called Little Melvin (Orlando Jones)--a loose cannon who ultimately threatens his livelihood and his family.


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