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
On the fifteenth of July began the cannonade.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Lightning burned streaks in the sky, and thunder cannonaded.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
On New Year's day, General Packenham cannonaded the Americans and was driven back.
From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton
As the tram went past them she had raised her voice a little and looked up into his face—it was just then they had cannonaded.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood
"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 last week the diplomatic cannonading turned into a full-scale battle.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the cannonading was over I took the visitor out into the street again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Michigan, like Illinois, a cannonading team from the University of Pennsylvania gave proof that football games are apt to be won in the first half.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or else he may have calculated that sharp cannonading would dishearten the garrison.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
