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Example sentences for: canons

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

Then, ruthless urban planner Baron Haussmann swept away almost all the medieval and 17th-century structures, leaving just place Dauphine and rue Chanoinesse (ancient home of the cathedral canons) as signs of the island’s once rich residential life.
(As the quotation above indicates, the 1102 Canons were in Latin, thus not valid citation fodder for the OED .)
Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.
David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or “canons,” of Holyrood.
He described them "in their Nike trainers, excitedly loading their Fuji film to take pictures with their Canons, chatting on their Nokia mobiles and dancing at the intersections to music from their Sonys" as "walking advertisements for the global economy."