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
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
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 Washington Irving
The house was now cannonaded, but the artillery was too light to have the desired effect.
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 Washington Irving
"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
In the thick northern fog a terrific cannonading broke out, then the masses of steel moved away.
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
Later it was learned from some of the prisoners that General Jackson's plan had been to attack with his infantry after the heavy cannonading.
From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson
