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Example sentences for: cannon

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Note that the cannon emplacements slope downward, a clever innovation that allowed the defenders to fire directly at the Spanish/French forces attacking from La Linea.
To have transported the deputy White House counsel's lumpy dead body 200 yards from the parking lot to the cannon and have nobody notice would have been quite an achievement.
A British sailor gave her the name “Old Ironsides,” as cannon balls skimmed off her copper sheathed gunwales and he marveled at her apparent indestructibility.
But the receptionist who answered announced the office as that of another orthodontist named Joseph Cannon.
As they approached the island, the small British population created a number of ruses to convince the Spanish that Bermuda was well defended; two salvos fired from a cannon went across the bay.