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
It’s unlikely any previous California governor has faced such a cannonade of calamities — a grand slam of disasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2019
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
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
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
He cannonaded Dorothy with all sorts of questions, and forced her to surrender the information that her favorite parts were Lady Teazle, Viola, Portia, and Beatrice.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
"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
Abraham Lincoln stood at his bedroom window and listened to Civil War cannonading across the Potomac, but the Confederates never reached the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, as red Roman candles begin to soar and the hooting and cannonading increase, chorus after wobbly chorus of Waltzing Matilda begin to ring across the waters.
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 booming of the sea in the caves, the cannonading of the thunder, the sharp whistle of the wind in the tops of the trees, and the shouts of the men!
From The Motor Maids' School Days by Katherine Stokes
