Sentences with cannon
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C c - One of the reporters cannoned into Arnold. [VERB preposition]
- In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
- Major weapons systems, such as aircraft carriers, fighter jets, artillery cannons and submarines are likely to be much less useful in unconventional wars.
- The fighters fired their cannons but did not hit the American aircraft.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
- In some missions, you'll be required to hop on an antiaircraft gun and shoot down enemy fighter planes, while in others you'll be manning chain guns and cannons on moving boats and trucks.
- There was a sudden shaking and rumble of cannons and battering-rams and I saw flames flickering.
- Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.
- For the next thirty minutes, the two tanks traveled in opposite directions, completely destroying the convoy with their one twenty millimeter cannons and 50 caliber machine guns.
- Troops in red coats and blue coats shot off cannons and artillery in his fields as all the people living there sat on the deck, cheering for one side or the other.
- The number of smooth-bore cannons used as artillery increased steadily.
- Tommy Lynch of Leighlin wrote the ballad, and the old artillery piece was the cannon on the steps of the Courthouse in Carlow.
- But the salute, which started slightly late and with one cannon out of action after a round misfired, left him slightly disappointed.
- However, the Irish needed the castle's large cannon for use in reducing other strongholds in the region, and were anxious to do so with the minimum delay.
- So powerful was the result that Chepstow continued in use until 1690, being finally adapted for cannon and musketry after an epic Civil War siege.
- The cannon crews defended their guns with everything they had, turning from guns to knives and even their bare knuckles.
- Once they were in close, they could deliver devastating fire from their cannon and rocket armament; only a few hits could bring down a heavy bomber.
- The Irishman had squandered several leads during a see-saw match, but he found his groove at the end, benefiting from a lucky cannon to get among the balls.
- In her article on the last days of Byzantium, Judith Herrin emphasises just how noisy they were, with drums and trumpets and church bells sounding over the roar of cannon and the clash of steel.
- In 1968 Gen. Franks returned to Fort Sill, where he commanded a cannon battery in the Artillery Training Center.
- The massive launching blast of the howitzer cannon deafened all that were near.
- I have news for you folks, a cannon is a machine tool.
- It looked like a central metal shaft with two spherical boosters on the side, and a main cannon in the front of the central shaft.
- A player makes a cannon by hitting the object balls with the cue ball.
- Archaeologists yesterday put on show a 17th century cannon recovered from a wreck dubbed Scotland's Mary Rose.
- As the outer layers cooled, they compressed the inner layers, giving the cannon greater tensile strength.
- If a cannon is fired from atop a high hill, the cannonball will fall to Earth, landing some distance away.
- Eight white balls are then struck in succession by a player in an effort to get the balls to fall into the holes with the restriction that the ball being played must cannon off another ball before falling into a hole.
- The military arms enthusiast was given the specialist task of replacing two historic cannon which once stood on the steps of Ashton Town Hall.