Sentence examples for cannon shot from inspiring English sources
"He wasn't within a cannon shot of two-fifty.
Others appear to have taken a single cannon shot.
It resets as the crowd is distracted by a cannon shot.
It was the only cannon shot they had in their armoury.
I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls.
Mrs. Bachmann's campaign strategy rests on what she calls a "cannon shot" from a victory in the Iowa caucuses.
Cannon shots tend to be replicated using other objects, such as bass drums or sledgehammers.
It featured eight cannon shots, each one sounding like a stick of dynamite being detonated.
He's picking obvious targets, painting them with wide brushes, then taking cannon shots that can't miss.
The rebels fired over 130 cannon shots through the borough, several down High Street into the square.
Today, he shook his head in admiration as Agassi punished his practice partner, Paul Goldstein, with cannon shots off the ground.
