cannonade
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But “Structures for Life” brings a cannonade of color to Queens, and it’s one of two opportunities to rediscover Saint Phalle in New York right now.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
Last fall, I wrote it was unlikely that any previous California governor had faced such a simultaneous cannonade of calamities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2018
Before walking in, Charlotte gave a wee royal hand wave to the cannonade of cameras.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2018
A boom of thunder as loud as a cannonade shook the bridge.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
At the Garden itself, packed with 20,000 screaming fans, the Stones presented their Pied Piper with a huge birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lightning burned streaks in the sky, and thunder cannonaded.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
It is absolutely necessary that the object of the infantry’s attack should be cannonaded before it advances.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
All admitted that it would not be tenable, should it be cannonaded and bombarded.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
"His footwork," wrote the Associated Press reporter Whitney Martin, "consists of moving forward in a direct line to a point where he is within cannonading range."
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2012
But Trabert's cannonading returns took a steady toll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chief decliners were from Virginia where Bishop James Cannon Jr. had again been cannonading against the Smith-Raskob leadership.
From Time Magazine Archive
The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cannonading was kept up all night, lighting up the forest scenery with its fire, and knocking loudly on that feeble fort for admission.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
