Example sentences for: cannons

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

  • All that remains today of the royal compound is the 1744 Mayura Water Palace, the former meeting hall and court of justice standing in the middle of a lake and reached by a causeway guarded by old cannons.

  • Yet in every case, the villains are not true IRA members but loose cannons who have broken away from the organization.

  • The courtyard itself contains the 18 cannons, including eight taken from Vienna, which Napoléon ordered fired on great occasions — including the birth of his son in 1811.

  • Its replacement, the Vendôme column, commemorates in bronze relief the victories of Napoléon, cast from 1,250 Austrian cannons captured at Austerlitz and topped by a statue of the emperor.

  • The South Magazine stored powder barrels uncomfortably close to military prisoners who were kept, with the cannons, in the Garrison Cells.


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