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Example sentences for: cannons

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As further ammunition to support my bulletproof contention that our language is loaded with guns and cannons, I'll conclude by gunning for items that have the word gun in them.
Sure as shootin', I've just shot my wad—lock, stock, and barrel—demonstrating how guns and cannons echo through our language.
Erected in the 16th century, it guarded the bay against pirate ships — you can still see the ancient cannons poking through the crenellated walls.
By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.
From its position at the harbor mouth, the views of Havana over the defiant cannons are magical.