Sentence examples for a cannon in a from inspiring English sources

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A conduit for dumping poison is likened to a cannon in a ferocious war photograph or the barrel of a rifle pointed by a firing squad.

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They have fired a rolling stone out of a cannon in the hope it will actually gather moss.

"Ooh, Anthea," says Una, sidling up to Anthea, a 68-year-old retired Wrens officer who has a lion and a cannon in her foreground.

"He has a cannon in his left foot.

Alfred Thayer Mahan's theory of world history, for instance, argued that control of the oceans by big navies was mostly what mattered: the best answer to a horseman with a scimitar in his hand was a boat with a cannon in its hold.

Designed to attack Soviet tank columns on the plains of Europe, it has been described as a Gatling gun with wings, capable of firing 70 Coke-bottle sized rounds a second from a cannon in its nose, while flying "low and slow" over battlefields.

His outlandish behavior was easier to swallow -- as outrageous is kind of a signature of the show -- than his antics later with a cannon in his backyard.

Build a Cannon in between the Pylons.

There's even a water cannon in case a riot breaks out.

The telephone monitors of the United States National Security Agency turned up "not a smoking gun, but a blazing cannon," in the words of a Mossad official.

Around Bojan's father, the mastiff was keen but subdued, like a retired cannon in a museum.

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