cannonade

Example Sentences

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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

The cannonade which had disturbed our labors being at an end, the corporal called to us to continue our binding of chevaux de frise, which labor we undertook again in silence.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson