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Example sentences for: cannons

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Here is a small arsenal of words and expressions that turn out to be figurative spark-offs from the language of guns and cannons.
Yet in every case, the villains are not true IRA members but loose cannons who have broken away from the organization.
His men crushed sultan Ibrahim’s 50,000 with cannons, hitherto unknown in India, at Panipat, north of Delhi.
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.