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Example sentences for: cannonballs

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These “monkeys” held pyramids of cannonballs for each gun in a muzzleloading battery on a battleship.
As for the square brass monkey with circular depressions for stacking cannonballs, it would have to contract a great deal more than the iron balls to cause them to tumble.
However, as cannonballs would career over the deck because of the motion of the ship, they were kept in crates or on racks, and the nice-looking pyramids were probably just for show, as at monuments.
Bhaktapur expanded over the centuries from a nucleus around the Tachupal Tole, reached by a walk from the Nyatapola Temple through narrow streets full of unfamiliar merchandise: the lengths of red yarn are sold to be plaited in women’s hair; the gray cannonballs are homemade soap, the conical yellowish cigarettes are bidi, the cheapest tobacco, and can be bought singly.
An article describes the newest missile defense scheme--75-miles-per-minute space cannonballs.